deceptive | misleading | appearing true but false

speciously | speciousness | speciousnesses

Latin speciosus 'beautiful, fair, splendid', from speciosus, from specere 'to look at'


specky | specked | flyspeck | specking | flyspecks | speckless

imitative of a small particle or fragment


emerge | gaze | perceive visually | spectrum | to gaze | to perceive visually

inspect, retrospect, spectacle, spectrum, perspective

despect | inspect | prospect | inspects | inspector | prospects

spec / spec, spex / spex, spic / spic, spite / spite

Latin spectare 'to look at', frequentative of specere 'to look'


inspect, retrospect, perspective, spectator


inspect, spectacle, spectrum, retrospect


emerge | gaze | perceive visually | range of colors | a range of colors or ranges

spectrogram | spectrology | spectrotron | spectrosome | spectrometer | spectroscopy


speculate, inspection, spectator, retrospective

From Latin specere 'to look at', from PIE *spek- 'to observe'


speed, speedy, speedily, speeder, speedup

Past tense and past participle of 'speed', from Old English 'spēdan' meaning 'to succeed, prosper, hasten'.


to talk | verbal communication | vocal expression

speechy | speeches | byspeech | bespeech | speechie | speechify


speedy | speeds | speeded | despeed | speeder | dispeed

From Old English 'spēd' meaning 'success, prosperity, good fortune', derived from Proto-Germanic '*spaidiz', ultimately from Proto-Indo-European '*spēd-' meaning 'to be successful'.


From Old English 'spēdwella', a compound of 'spēd' (success, speed) and 'wella' (spring, fountain), referring to the plant's rapid growth or sap.


aplanospore | archesporium | carpospore | chlamydospore | diaspora | diaspore | endospore | esparto | eusporangium | exospore | heterosporous | heterospory | homosporous | isosporous | leptosporangium | megasporangium | megaspore | microsporangium | microspore | mitospore | sporadic | sporangiospore | sporangium | spore | sporocarp | sporophyte | teliospore | tetraspore | tetrasporophytic | zygospore

σπείρω (speírō) | σπαρτός | σπορά | σποράς | σποράδος (sporás | sporádos) | σποραδικός (sporadikós) | σπόρος (spóros) | σποράδος(sporás | σποραδικός(sporadikós)


speleology | speleogenic | speleologist | speleologies | speleobopper | speleophilic


spells | spello | spelled | respell | speller | bespell

From Old English 'spellian' (to tell, recite) and 'spell' (story, news, tidings), of Germanic origin.


Old English 'spellian' (to write, to tell)


spendy | spends | spender | respend | bespend | spended

σπένδειν (spéndein), σπονδή, σπονδάς (spondḗ, spondás), σπονδεῖος, σπονδικός


unspent | forspent | spentest | heartspent

Latin past participle stem of 'spendere' meaning 'to give, bestow, devote'


Latin prefix in- (variant before s) meaning 'not, without'


disperse | scatter | distribute in small amounts

spargere | Latin -spergere (comb. form) (pp. -spersum) spargere (pp. sparsum) : to scatter | to strew | to sprinkle


Semen | reproductive material in male animals | generative substance

sperms | spermic | oosperm | zoosperm | spermist | oosperms

from Greek sperma, meaning 'seed' or 'semen'


related to sperm | pertaining to sperm cells | resembling sperm

spermatoid | spermatovum | spermatocyte | spermatocide | spermatology | spermatocele

derived from Greek 'sperma' meaning seed or sperm


from Latin spargere 'to scatter, sprinkle'


to vomit | to eject forcefully | to discharge

spews | spewy | spewer | spewed | bespew | spewers


spec / spec, spect / spect, spic / spic, spite / spite


sphenotic | sphenotics | sphenophyte | sphenography | sphenophytes | sphenographic

σφήν, σφηνός (sphḗn, sphēnós)


aspheric | atmosphere | hemisphere | hypersphere | mesosphere | pseudosphere | sphere | spherical | spheroid | spherometer | spherulite | stratosphere | trimetasphere | spherule

spheres | asphere | sphered | unsphere | cosphere | oosphere


Latin sphaera 'sphere' (from Greek sphaira)


spherocyte | spherosome | spheromere | spherolith | spherocone | spherometer


to tighten | constriction | ring-shaped muscle

sphincter, external sphincter, internal sphincter, anal sphincter, urethral sphincter

sphincters | sphincteral | sphincteric | sphincterotomy | rhabdosphincter | transphincteric


asphyxia | sphygmic | sphygmochronograph | sphygmograph | sphygmomanometer | sphygmus

asphyxia, sphygmic, sphygmochronograph, sphygmograph, sphygmomanometer, sphygmus

σφύζειν (sphúzein) | σφυγμός (sphugmós) | (sphugmikós) | (sphúxis) | σφύζειν(sphúzein) | σφυγμός(sphugmós)


sphygmic | sphygmogram | sphygmograph | sphygmoid | sphygmomanometer

sphygmic, sphygmogram, sphygmograph, sphygmoid, sphygmomanometer

sphygmogram | sphygmology | sphygmometer | sphygmograms | sphygmograph | sphygmometers

Greek sphyxis : heartbeat, pulse sphyzein : to throb


aromatic substance | seasoning | pungent flavor

spiced | spicer | spicen | spicery | bespice | spicers

From Arabic 'spice' (spiced meat) or Persian 'spīd' (white), via Old French 'espice'


respiders | spiderling | spiderworts | spideriness | spidergrams | spiderlings


From German 'Spiel' meaning 'game' or 'play', derived from Old High German 'spil'.


From Old English 'spīgan' meaning 'to spout, gush, or issue forth', related to the verb 'spew'.


sharp point | sudden increase | to pierce

spikes | spiker | unspike | despike | spikelet | unspikes

From Latin 'spica' meaning 'ear of grain' or 'sharp point', referring to the pointed tip of a grain stalk.


to flow out | to overflow | to lose liquid by accident

spills | spilly | spiller | spilling | spillway | spillers

From Old English spillan 'to destroy, waste', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spillen and German spielen 'to play'.


vertebral column | backbone | central support

spines | spined | spinely | despine | despines | despined

Latin 'spina' meaning 'thorn' or 'backbone'


respiration | vital air | existence | essence

spirit, inspire, respiration, spiritus, perspire


acrospire, aspirin, leptospirosis, spiral, spire, spirea, spireme, spiriferous, spirillum, spirochete, spirogyra


inspirals | spiralians | bispiraled | spiralizes | spiralized | spiralings

From Latin spiralis, from spirare 'to breathe, blow'


spirits | spirity | spirited | dispirit | inspirit | unspirit

Latin spiritus 'breath, soul', from spirare 'to breathe'


to inhale and exhale | the process of breathing

aspire | conspire | expire | inspire | perspire | respiration | spirit | transpire | spirograph | spirogram

buspirone | spirogram | spiroatom | spirograph | spirometry | spiroketal


a narrow, pointed landform extending into water | a sandy peninsula | a narrow strip of land connected to the mainland

spits | spitty | bespit | unspit | spittle | spitted

Derived from Old English 'spit,' meaning a narrow point of land.


spittled | spittles | bespittle | spittlebug | lickspittle | spittlebugs

From Old English 'spitul' or 'spittan', related to the verb 'spit'.


splanchnotomy | splanchnocele | splanchnoceles | splanchnography | splanchnoptosis | splanchnocranium

Greek splanchnon 'viscera, internal organ'


to strike or fall with a splashing sound | to scatter liquid in drops

splashy | splashes | splasher | besplash | splashing | splashily

imitative of the sound of liquid hitting a surface


to spread or splash (a liquid) in a messy way | to hit or strike with force

Likely from Middle Dutch 'splateren' or Middle Low German 'splatern', meaning to splash or scatter, related to the root 'split'.


splays | splayed | splaying | splayfoot | splayfooted

From Middle English 'splaien', related to 'explain'


spleens | spleeny | spleened | spleenful | spleenish | spleenwort


splendid, splendor, resplendent, dissident


splendidly | unsplendid | splendidness | unsplendidly | splendidiferous

Latin splendidus, from splendere 'to shine'


Latin splendor 'brightness, brilliance' + -ferous 'bearing, producing'


Latin splendor (genitive splendoris) 'brightness, shining, glory'


Latin 'spleen' (organ associated with melancholy in ancient medicine)


splenocyte | splenotomy | splenopexy | splenocele | splenocytes | splenorenal

σπληνο-  OED

< Greek σπληνο- | combining form of σπλήν spleen OED | Greek σπλήν | σπλην- (splḗn | splēn-) | spleen | milt


splicer | spliced | splices | splicers | resplice | unspliced

From Latin splicare 'to fold, plait', from splica 'twist, plait'.


splints | splinter | splinted | splinting | shinsplint | splintlike

Middle English splint, likely related to split


splits | unsplit | resplit | splitty | splitter | netsplit

From Old English 'splitan' meaning 'to divide, separate, or break apart', of Germanic origin.


artsploitation | fatsploitation | gaysploitation | nunsploitation | carsploitation | Jewsploitation

Truncation of 'exploitation' combined with the productive suffix '-ation', originating from the 'splatter film' genre term 'splatter-tation' in the 1970s.


spoil, spoils, spoiled, spoiling, spoilsport

spoils | spoiled | spoiler | unspoil | spoilers | spoiling

Latin 'spoliare' meaning 'to strip, plunder, or ruin', derived from 'spolium' (spoils)


spoken | spokes | spoked | spokest | respoke | unspoken

PIE *sbheug- (to strike, to move, to speak)


guarantee | assurance | provide assurance | vow | commitment | voluntary pledge

correspond | correspondence | correspondent | corresponsive | cosponsor | despond | despondency | despondent | desponsage | desponsate | desponsation | disespouse | espousage | espousal | espouse | interspousal | irresponsibility | irresponsible | irresponsive | nonresponsive | respond | respondee | respondence | respondent | response | responsibility | responsible | responsion | responsive | responsivity | riposte | sponsal | sponsion | sponsional | sponsor | spousal | spouse | spontaneous | spontaneity


of or pertaining to the spine, the vertebra

spondylolysis | spondylopathy | spondylodesis | spondylophyte | spondylolytic | spondylocostal

Greek σφόνδῠλος / σπόνδυλος (sphóndulos, spóndulos), the spine


spongocoel | spongocoels | spongobiont | spongobiotic


confidence | security | assurance | vow | commitment

correspond | correspondence | correspondent | corresponsive | cosponsor | despond | despondency | despondent | desponsage | desponsate | desponsation | irresponsibility | irresponsible | irresponsive | nonresponsive | respond | respondee | respondence | respondent | response | responsibility | responsible | responsion | responsive | responsivity | riposte | sponsal | sponsion | sponsional | sponsor

spondere | sponsus | Greek spora : a sowing | a seed


to support | to back | to provide patronage

sponsors | sponsored | cosponsor | sponsorer | sponsorly | cosponsors

Latin sponsor, sponsorem 'guarantor, surety', from past participle stem of spondere 'to pledge'


of one's own accord | unplanned | natural

Latin sponte 'of one's own accord, willingly' (ablative of spōns, spont- 'will, pleasure')


spoofs | spoofy | spoofed | spoofer | spoofing | spoofers

From French 'espuer' (to deceive, mock), possibly from Old French 'esploier' or related to 'espier' (to spy), ultimately of Germanic origin.


spooky | spooks | spooked | spooker | spooking | spookily

From Middle Dutch 'spoken' (past participle of 'spucken' meaning to blow or spit), referring to the breath or spirit of the dead.


cylindrical device for winding | to wind onto a cylinder

From Old English 'spula' (spool, bobbin), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch 'spoel' and German 'Spule'.


utensil for eating | small concave vessel

spoony | spoons | spooned | spooner | teaspoon | spoonful


occurring at irregular intervals | not constant

Greek spora 'seed' + -adik (adjectival suffix)


spores | spored | oospore | bispore | zoospore | exospore

σπείρω (speírō), σπαρτός, σπορά, σποράς, σποράδος (sporás, sporádos), σποραδικός (sporadikós), σπόρος (spóros)


sport, sportsmanship, sporting, sportswear

sporty | sported | sporter | sportal | eSports | sporting


a particular place | a small mark | to notice

spotty | respot | bespot | sunspot | spottle | spotter

Middle English 'spot' (a small patch or stain)


spouses | spoused | spousess | spousely | bespouse | spousedom

Old English spous (companion, betrothed)


spouts | aspout | spouted | spouter | bespout | spouting

imitative of the sound of liquid flowing


sprains | sprained | spraining | unsprained

From Old English 'sprǣnan' meaning 'to twist, bend, or break', related to the Proto-Germanic root *sprenganą.


to leap | to move suddenly | to originate

Old English sprangen, past tense of springan


Old English 'sprætt' meaning 'a small fish'


sprawls | asprawl | sprawly | sprawled | sprawler | sprawling

From Old English 'sprǣlan' meaning 'to spread out, extend, or lie at full length', of Germanic origin.


a thin stream of liquid or particles | a shoot or branch of a plant

respray | sprayer | sprayed | sprayey | spraying | sprayers

Middle English sprayen, related to Old French esprey


to extend | to distribute | to cover an area

spreads | aspread | spreader | dispread | bespread | despread

From Old English 'sprǣdan' meaning 'to extend, stretch out, cause to spread', of Germanic origin.


a small shoot or twig | a small piece or fragment

sprigs | spriggy | sprigged | spriglet | sprigging | sprigtail


springs | springy | springer | upspring | atspring | springed

From Old English 'springan' meaning 'to leap, jump, burst forth', derived from Proto-Germanic '*sprengwaną'.


sprints | sprinter | sprinted | sprinting | sprinters | outsprint


spirit, spiritual, spirituality, spiritless

Latin spiritus 'breath, soul', from spirare 'to breathe'


sprouty | asprout | sprouted | resprout | sprouter | sprouting

Middle English sproten, from Old English sprytan


spruces | spruced | sprucen | sprucely | sprucens | spruceness

From Old English 'spruce' (a variant of 'pruce'), originally meaning 'the tree of Prussia', derived from Middle French 'prouce' or 'pruce', referring to the region of Prussia where the tree was imported.


Old English sprungen, past participle of springan 'to leap, jump, burst forth', from Proto-Germanic *sprengwaną


From Old English 'sprē' meaning 'active, lively, vigorous', of Germanic origin.


spuds | spuddy | spudded | spudnut | spudding | spudless

Scottish 'spud' (originally a small digging tool, later the tuber itself), possibly from Old French 'espadouille' or related to 'spade'.


unspun | topspun | prespun | homespun | finespun | spunlaid


hotspur | spurred | spurdog | spurrer | larkspur | hotspurs

Latin 'spura' meaning spur, likely of imitative origin


spuriously | unspurious | nonspurious | spuriousness | spuriousnesses

Latin spurius 'illegitimate, forged', possibly from spurcus 'dirty, impure'


to reject with disdain | to treat with contempt | to refuse

spurns | spurned | spurner | spurning | spurneth | spurners

From Old French espurner 'to spurn, kick', from espur 'spur', from Vulgar Latin *exspurdare


spurts | spurted | bespurt | spurting | bespurts | spurtings

From Old English 'spyrtan' meaning 'to gush or spout', related to 'spire' and 'spout'.


Russian sputnik (спутник) from sputit' 'to accompany'


to observe | to investigate | to gather intelligence

Old French 'espion' from 'espier' 'to spy, watch'


squabs | squabby | squabness | squabbish

Middle English squaben, from Old French esquiver 'to avoid' (via the sense of 'shifting to avoid a blow' -> 'quarreling')


to argue | noisy quarrel | petty dispute

squabbler | squabbled | squabbles | squabblers | squabblesome

From Middle English squablen, of imitative origin, possibly related to squab 'pigeon' or squab 'short and fat'.


a four-sided figure with equal sides and right angles | a level or fair arrangement | a public gathering space

squads | squaddy | squaddie | squadrol | squaddies | squadmate

Latin 'squadra' meaning 'square, row, set of soldiers'


Italian squadron (squadrone), from squadro 'square'


squalids | squalidly | unsqualid | squalidity | squalidness

Latin squalidus 'rough, shaggy, dirty', from squallere 'to be rough, shaggy'


sudden gust of wind | violent storm | cry of distress

squalls | squally | squalled | squaller | squalling | squallers

Middle English squallen (to cry out, or a sudden gust)


From Latin squalor, from squaleo 'to be rough, shaggy'


Latin squāmosus 'covered with scales', from squāma 'scale'


to misuse | to expend extravagantly | to consume wastefully


squares | squared | squarer | squarely | squarers | squareth

Latin quadratus, past participle of quadrare 'to make square', from quadrus 'square'


squashy | squashes | squasher | squashing | squashers | squashily

From Old French 'esquasser' or 'esquasser', meaning 'to break, crush, or shatter', likely of Germanic origin (cf. Old High German 'skazzan' meaning 'to break').


asquat | squats | squatly | squatty | squatter | squatted


A warning signal | An indication of an error | A vocal expression of alarm

squawky | squawked | squawker | squawkers | squawkily | outsquawk


squeals | squealy | squealed | squealer | squealers | squealing


easily nauseated | easily disgusted | sensitive

Middle English 'squemyshen' (disgust, nausea)


tool for cleaning | to clean with a rubber blade

From Dutch 'sweegje', diminutive of 'swee' (to sweep), referring to the tool's function.


to compress | to press tightly | to grip firmly

squeeze, squeezing, squeezed, squeezable

squeezes | squeezer | squeezed | squeezers | squeezeth | unsqueeze

Middle English squyshen, from Old French escuissier


a person or thing of little importance | a small explosive charge

squibbed | squibber | squibbing | squibbers

Middle English squib 'spark, small firework', of unknown origin; later extended to mean 'trivial person'.


squids | squiddy | squidder | squidded | squidlike | nanoSQUID

Middle English squid, likely from an imitative source or related to 'skid'


to move in a wavy line | to twist | to curve


to partially close the eyes | to look with eyes partly closed

squints | squinty | squinted | squinter | squinting | squinters

From Old English 'scīetan' meaning 'to shoot, aim', related to the notion of directing one's gaze.


squired | squires | squirely | squiredom | unsquired | unsquires

Old French esquier < Frankish *skild-waria (shield-bearer)


to twist | to wriggle | to move with small, jerky motions

squirmy | squirms | squirmed | squirmer | squirmish | squirming


squirrels | squirrely | squirrelly | squirrelish | squirreldom | squirrelpox

Middle French 'écureuil', from Old French 'escuril'


to eject liquid in a small stream | to spray

squirts | squirty | squirted | squirter | squirting | squirters

imitative of the sound of spraying liquid


remain upright | induce standing | the act of standing

antestature | arrest | arrestant | arrestee | bistability | bistable | bistate | circumstance | circumstantial | consist | constable | constabulary | constancy | constant | constitute | consubstantiation | contrast | distance | distant | equidistance | equidistant | establish | estate | extant | inconstancy | inconstant | instability | instance | instant | obstacle | presto | stable | stamen | stamina | stance | stanchion | stanza | state | station | stationary | statistic | statue | status | staunch | stay | substance | substantial | substantiality | substantiate | substantiation | substantive | substate | substation | substitute | superstation | superstition | superstitious | transubstantiate | transubstantiation | tristate | acrostatic | actinostele | anastasis | antistatic | apostasy | apostate | astasia | astasis | astatic | astatine | catastasis | chronostasis | diastase | diastasis | diastatic | diasystem | ecstasy | ecstatic | epistasis | episteme | epistemic | epistemology | eustasis | eustatic | eustele | haplostele | homeostasis | homeostatic | hydrostatic | hypostasis | hypostasize | hypostatic | hypostatize | mesostatic | metastasis | metastasize | metastatic | metasystem | orthostates | orthostatic | protostele | stasimon | stasis | stater | static | statoblast | statocyst | statolith | stela | stele | systasis | system | systematic | systematize | systematology | systemic | teleutostatic | cost | imprest | oust | rest (remainder) | rest (to be | to remain | to keep) | restive | stare decisis unrelated: rest (relaxation)

sts | against | againster | againstism | againsters | unbeknownst

From Proto-Indo-European *stā- 'to stand', via Latin *stare or Greek *stasis


remain upright | state | motionless | the act of standing

acrostatic | antistatic | apostate | ecstatic | homeostasis | homeostatic | institution | station | stationary | statistic | statue | status | statute | substate | substation | photostat | pyrostat | rheostat | thermostat | electrostatic | eustatic | geostatic | gyrostatic | haemostatic | hemostatic | hydrostatic | antidisestablishmentarianism | constable | constabulary | disestablish | establish | stabile | stability | stabilize | stable (all senses)


stabs | stabby | stabbed | stabber | backstab | stabbing

Middle English stabbe, from Old English stabban 'to work, toil'


stables | astable | stabled | stabler | unstable | bistable

From Latin stabilis 'firm, steady', from stare 'to stand'


stacky | stacked | stacker | restack | unstack | stackup

Middle English stak, from Old English stæc


large venue | arena | place for sports or events

stadiums | stadiumful | stadiumlike | stadiumfuls

Latin 'stadium' (a measure of length, ~600 feet), from Greek 'stadion' (a stadium, a course for running)


a group of people | a stick or pole | personnel

staff, staffroom, staff sergeant, staff officer, staff car, staff meeting

staffs | Staffs | staffer | restaff | staffed | destaff


staff, staffroom, staff sergeant, staff officer

From Old English 'staf' meaning 'stick, pole, staff', referring to the staff of office carried by officials.


stags | staggy | staglike | staghorn | stagette | staggard

Old English staga, from Proto-Germanic *stagaz


To arrange parts alternately on either side of a central line | To position elements in an alternating pattern | To place components symmetrically in succession

staggers | staggery | staggered | staggerer | bestagger | staggering

From Old English 'stægeran', meaning to arrange alternately


staidly | unstaid | staidness | unstaidness | staidnesses

Middle English staid, from stay (to stop/remain)


stained | restain | stainer | costain | bestain | staining


stairs | upstair | staired | upstairs | stairway | airstair


a share | an interest | a wager | a support

stakes | staked | staker | stakers | staketh | stakest


stales | staled | stalely | nonstale | stalemate | staleness


Stalinism | Stalinist | Stalinian | Stalinize | destalinize | destalinized


stem | stem of a plant | slender part of a plant

stalks | stalky | stalker | stalked | stalkee | destalk


stalls | stalled | staller | stalling | stallers | stallage


stallions | stallioner | stallioneer | stallioners | stallioneers

Middle English stallion, from Old English stallion


Middle English stalwart (strong, steadfast)


status, station, statute, establish, instance, constant

Position, State, Existence, Core concept

Latin 'stare' (to stand) or 'status' (state, position)


stamen | male reproductive organ of a flower

stamens | stamened | stamenless | stameniferous

Greek stamamen 'supporting, making to stand'


endurance | vitality | physical strength

Latin 'stamina' (plural of 'stamen' meaning 'warp, thread, standing'), from 'stare' (to stand)


stamps | stamped | stamper | enstamp | restamp | stamping

Old English stampian 'to stamp, tread', of imitative origin


sudden rush | uncontrolled movement | mass movement

stampedes | stampeded | stampeder | stampeders

Middle English stampeden, from Old French estamper 'to stamp, trample'


Shiastan | Kurdistan | Blogistan | nerdistan | Zionistan | Sunnistan


arrestant, substance, constant, distant, instant, stanchion, stanza, circumstance

stances | stanced | midstance | stanceless | stancelessness


stanched | stancher | stanchly | stanchers | stancheth | stanchless


bystander, outstanding, stand, standard, standby, standoff, standpipe, standpoint, standstill, substandard, understand, upstanding, withstand

stands | astand | standee | bestand | stander | upstand

Old English stǣnan 'to cause to stand', frequentative of stān 'to stand'


conforming to a rule | usual | regular | not deviant

From Latin 'standardum' (a flag or banner), from 'stare' (to stand).


remain upright | the act of being in a vertical position

arrestant | substance | constant | distant | instant | stanchion | stanza | circumstance | staunch | Constance | Constantine | extant | happenstance | instance | stance | stanch | substance (→substant / substant.) Variant Spellings: stanza

Latin stans, present participle of stare 'to stand'


staphyledema | staphylion | staphylococcus | staphyloderma | staphyloplasty | staphylorrhaphy


stapler | staplers | restaple | unstaple | nonstaple | restapled

Old English stæpel "post, pillar, support"


celestial body | luminous point in the sky

star, starry, starlight, starfish, starboard

stars | astar | instar | bistar | starry | costar


starks | starkly | starken | starkers | starkish | starkens

Old English 'stearc' meaning stiff, strong, or severe


start, started, starting, starter, startup, startle, start-up

starts | astart | starter | startle | upstart | started

Old English 'styrtan' (to leap, spring, or move suddenly)


to suffer from hunger | to die of hunger | to lack

starved | starves | starver | starveth | starvest | starvers


Anastasia, apostasy, ecstasy, homeostasis, metastasize, stasis


stashed | stasher | stashes | destash | stashing | stashers

Unknown origin, possibly from Middle English 'stassen' or related to 'stow' (place); first attested as a verb in the 18th century.


derivational suffix affix bound morpheme

acrostatic, antistatic, apostate, ecstatic, homeostasis, homeostatic, institution, station, stationary, statistic, statue, status, statute, substate, substation, photostat, pyrostat, rheostat, thermostat, electrostatic, eustatic, geostatic, gyrostatic, haemostatic, hemostatic, homeostatic, hydrostatic

biostasis | myostasis | cytostasis | venostasis | cryostasis | mesostasis


mechanism or device maintaining what is denoted by

system or tool preserving the meaning of the initial element | structure sustaining the significance of the first component

stats | biostat | pyrostat | rheostat | aquastat | cryostat

Greek -stat (from -stasis) "standing, staying, or stable"


position | state | motionless | remain upright

status, statue, static, station, statute


stater | states | stated | upstate | stately | instate

Latin status 'condition, position, standing', from stare 'to stand'


acrostatic | antistatic | apostate | ecstatic | homeostasis | homeostatic | institution | station | stationary | statistic | statue | status | statute | substate | substation | photostat | pyrostat | rheostat | thermostat | electrostatic | eustatic | geostatic | gyrostatic | haemostatic | hemostatic | hydrostatic

statics | astatic | staticy | staticky | bistatic | statical


myostatin | myostatins | pravastatin | fluvastatin | spliceostatins


Latin 'statisticus' (of or pertaining to the state), from 'status' (state, condition)


data | collection of facts | numerical study

Latin statistica 'statistics', from Greek statikos 'standing, causing to stand', from statos 'standing'


Latin stator 'one who stands or stays', from stare 'to stand'


acrostatic | antistatic | apostate | ecstatic | homeostasis | homeostatic | institution | station | stationary | statistic | statue | status | statute | substate | substation | photostat | pyrostat | rheostat | thermostat | electrostatic | eustatic | geostatic | gyrostatic | haemostatic | hemostatic | hydrostatic


Latin -ārium, from -ārius (adjectival suffix) derived from the stem of nouns like statua (statue) or mors (death)


statues | statued | statuette | statuesque | statuelike | statuettes

Latin statua 'a standing, pillar, image' (from stare 'to stand')


Latin statura 'height, stature', from statuere 'to set, place'


statute, constitution, establish, status, stationary

Latin statūtum 'thing settled', past participle of statuere 'to set, place, establish'


staunchly | stauncher | staunched | staunching | staunchness | unstaunched


staurolite | staurogram | staurolites | stauroscope | staurolitic | staurospore

Greek stauros (σταυρός) 'cross, upright stake'


a staff or rod | a line of music | a verse of a poem

staves | staved | bowstave | bookstave | staveless | stavewood

Old Norse stafr 'staff, pole', from Proto-Germanic *staba-


stays | astay | stayed | stayer | upstay | bestay


bedstead, homestead, instead, roadstead, stead, -stead (in place names, as Hampstead, Worstead), steadfast, steady

steads | instead | bestead | onstead | bedstead | besteads


Old English stæðefæst (stæðe 'fixed' + fæst 'firm')


steaks | steaky | nonsteak | ribsteak | beefsteak | steaklike

Middle English steik, from Old English stæc


steals | stealth | stealer | besteal | stealed | upsteal


Middle English stele, stele 'secret, hidden', from Old English stelan 'to steal, hide'


steamy | steams | steamer | steamed | steamie | steaming


stearate | stearic | stearin | stearoptene Variant Spellings: steapsin | steapsin


steatosis | asteatosis | steatopygia | steatorrhea | steatopygic | steatogenic

Greek steato, genitive of stear : tallow


steely | steels | steeled | steelie | unsteel | steeler

From Old English 'stēal' meaning 'hard metal, iron', of Germanic origin.


From Old English 'stān' meaning stone, often used in compound words to denote something hard, solid, or made of stone.


steep, steeple, steeplechase, steeplejack

steeps | steepy | steeple | steeped | steeply | steepen


to guide | to direct | to control the course of

steers | steered | steerer | resteer | besteer | steerage

Old English stieran "to direct, guide, steer"


roof. Used for armoured or plated animals. | cover | covered | hidden

Examples: Stegosaurus ("roofed lizard") | Ichthyostega ("roofed fish") | Acanthostega ("spine roof") | steganography | steganopod | stegosaur

στέγη (stégē)

στέγειν, στέγη (stégē), στεγανός (steganós)


steinway, steinmetz, steinbruch, steinzeit

Old High German stein, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stey- 'to stand'


From Old High German 'stein' meaning stone or rock.


vertical support | upright pole | flat stone

Greek stele 'pillar, slab, upright stone'


στέλλω (stéllō), στάλσις (stálsis), στολή (stolḗ)


constellation | stellar | Estelle | Stella | stellate | stellar (of the stars | like a star) | constellation (group of stars)

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stems | destem | stemmy | bestem | restem | stemed


stenometer | stenography | stenosis | stenohygric | stenoky | stenophagous | stenotopic | stenotype

stenotype | stenoderm | stenogamy | stenograph | stenotypes | stenotherm

combining form of Greek στενός narrow OED | Greek στενός (stenós) | narrow | short | στενός (stenós) | Greek stereos : solid | cubic

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stenchy | stenches | stenchful | stenchsome


restenosis | poststenosis | angiostenosis | homeostenosis | dacryostenosis | bronchostenosis

Greek στενός (stenós), narrow, short; + -σῐς (-sis), added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process


Latin stentorius, from stentor 'Stentor' (a herald with a loud voice in the Iliad)


connected via a subsequent marriage | kinship formed through a later union | familial bonds | association | a later marriage

step-brother | step-mother | step-parents | stepbrother | stepmother | stepfather | stepsister

steps | upstep | unstep | bestep | steply | stepma

Old English stéop- ... prefixed to terms of relationship OED

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large area of flat grassland | treeless plain

steppes | steppelike | shrubsteppe | shrubsteppes

Russian steppe (степь), from Turkic origins


son of one's spouse by a previous marriage

stepdaughter, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister

Compound of 'step-' (from Old English 'steop-') and 'son' (from Old English 'sunu'), literally 'son of a step-parent'.


a person producing or taking part in what is denot

someone engaged in the action of the initial component | an individual participating in | a noun form indicating existence

fraudster | mobster | trickster | adjuster | administer | alabaster | arrester | aster | attester | buster | master | baluster | bandmaster | huckster | pollster | hipster

lobster | skister | tipster | dabster | lamster | punster


allosteric, stereochemistry, stereochromy, stereographic, stereography, stereoisomer, stereometry, stereophonic, stereopsis, stereoscope, stereoscopy, stereotaxis, stereotomy, stereotype, stereotypic, steric

steres | kilostere | decastere | kilosteres | decasteres

στερεός (stereós)


stereos | stereogen | stereology | stereogram | stereopsis | stereobond

Greek stereos 'solid, three-dimensional'


having three dimensions | having volume | three-dimensional spatial area

allosteric | stereochemistry | stereochromy | stereographic | stereography | stereoisomer | stereometry | stereophonic | stereopsis | stereoscope | stereoscopy | stereotaxis | stereotomy | stereotype | stereotypic | steric | stereo-isomerism | stereopticon

στερεός  OED

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unsterile | nonsterile | intersterile | ultrasterile

Latin sterilis 'barren, fruitless', from sterilis 'barren'


sterling, sterling silver, sterling reputation

From Old English 'steorling' (coin), from 'steorra' meaning 'star', referring to the star on early English coins.


stereo, sterile, stereotype, stereoscopic, stereotyped

astern | sterns | sternly | sterner | sterned | sternway

στέρνον (stérnon) | στέρνον(stérnon) | -sterol cholesterol Greek stereos : solid | stiff


Latin sternum 'breastbone', from Greek sternon


Latin sternum "breastbone", from Greek sternon


acrostatic | antistatic | apostate | ecstatic | homeostasis | homeostatic | institution | station | stationary | statistic | statue | status | statute | substate | substation | photostat | pyrostat | rheostat | thermostat | electrostatic | eustatic | geostatic | gyrostatic | haemostatic | hemostatic | hydrostatic | obstetrics | stet


stethoscope | stethoscopes | stethoscoped | stethoscopist | stethoscoping | stethoscopists


thick liquid food | mixture | to cook slowly

stews | stewy | stewed | stewer | stewing | stewpan

Middle English stewe, from Old French estuver 'to boil, stew'


Old French estourage/estouage (related to 'steward' as one who manages an estate)


From Greek stibi(um) 'antimony' + -o- combining form


Latin -sticus, from Greek -stikos, from histēmi 'to stand'


a straight mark | a series | a verse line

acrostic | cadastre | distich | distichous | haplostichous | hemistich | heptastich | monostich | monostichous | orthostichy | pentastich | polystichia | polystichous | stich | stichic | stichomancy | stichometry | stichomythia | telestich

stichic | tristich | heptastich | pentastich | chronostich

Greek stichos (στῖχος) 'line, row, verse'


sticky | sticks | stickup | sticker | stickum | unstick

From Old English 'stician' meaning 'to pierce, stick, or adhere', derived from Proto-Germanic '*stikjanan'.


From Old English stician 'to pierce, stick', from Proto-Germanic *stikjanan.


stiffy | stiffs | Stiffs | stiffen | stiffly | stiffens


to suppress | to suffocate | to restrain

stifled | stifles | stifler | stiflers | stiflest | stifleth

Middle English stiflen, related to stifle (to choke)


symbol | perforation | provoke | stimulate

anastigmat | anastigmatic | astigmatic | astigmatism | stigma | stigmata | stigmatic | instigate


blemish | perforation | patch | discoloration

anastigmat | anastigmatic | astigmatic | astigmatism | stigma | stigmatic | stigmatize

stigmas | stigmatic | stigmatics | antistigma | stigmaless | nonstigmatic

στίζειν (stízein), στίξις (stíxis), στίγμα, στίγματος (stígma, stígmatos)


distigmine | neostigmine | rivastigmine | eptastigmine

Chemistry, Alkaloids, Derivational Suffix

From Greek stikhminē, a type of alkaloid found in Strychnos plants


Latin stilus 'stylus, writing instrument, finger-ring for scratching wax tablets'


a single drop of liquid falling | a single drop of liquid | a single unit of liquid

distillation | instill | distill | distillate | still (distillery)

stills | stilly | stilled | stiller | unstill | bestill


stilts | stilty | stilted | Stiltia | stilter | stiltify

Middle English stilte, from Old English stilt 'pole, stake'


remain in place | prevent from advancing

destination | obstinate | abstain | abstinence


stingy | stings | stingo | stinger | unsting | stinged


distinction | distinguish | distinctive | extinguish | distinguishable


Latin 'stinguere' (variant of 'stinguere' or 'extinguere') meaning 'to put out, extinguish', related to 'stinguere' (to quench) and 'extinguere'.


Middle English stingi, from Old English stingig 'pricking, pungent', from stingan 'to sting'


to emit a strong unpleasant smell | unpleasant odor

stinky | stinko | stinks | stinker | unstink | destink


to stop | to limit | to restrict | to stint (verb)

stints | stinty | stinted | stinter | stinting | stinters

Middle English stint (a stopping, a cessation)


Latin stipendium 'pay, salary', from stip- (stem of stipem 'money, ransom') + -pendere 'to weigh, pay'


to mark with small dots | pattern of dots

imitative of the sound or action of small points


Latin stipulus 'stipulated, agreed upon', from stipulare 'to stipulate, promise'


astir | stirs | bestir | upstir | stirred | stirrer


From Old French estriper, from Medieval Latin stipula 'straw, stalk', referring to the original straw-covered footrests.


acrostatic, antistatic, apostate, ecstatic, homeostasis, homeostatic, institution, station, stationary, statistic, statue, status, statute, substate, substation, photostat, pyrostat, rheostat, thermostat, electrostatic, eustatic, geostatic, gyrostatic, haemostatic, hemostatic, homeostatic, hydrostatic


stitch, stitched, stitching, stitches, outstitch, restitch

stitches | stitched | restitch | unstitch | stitcher | stitching

From Old English 'stīcian' meaning 'to pierce, prick, or stick', related to Old Norse 'stika'.


constitute, institute, substitute, restitue

From Latin 'stituere', meaning 'to set up' or 'to place', derived from the root 'statu-' (past participle of 'stare', to stand).


random | involving chance | unpredictable

Greek stokhastikos 'aiming at a mark' from stochastikos 'guessing'


stockpile, livestock, stockroom, stockade

stocky | stocks | stocked | restock | stocker | destock

Old French stocke, from Frankish *stokk- 'stump, trunk'


Old English stocgan 'to stop, to plug, to obstruct'


of or relating to the Stoics | characterized by endurance of pain or hardship without display of feelings or complaint

stoics | stoicly | unstoic | stoicism | stoicize | stoicity


stokes | stoked | stoker | stokers | restoke | unstoked

Middle English stoken, from stoke (to poke, stir)


στέλλω (stéllō) | στάλσις (stálsis) | στολή (stolḗ) | Greek stoma : mouth


stolidly | unstolid | stolidity | stolidness | stolidities

Latin stolidus 'stupid, dull', from stolu- 'stiff'


anastomosis | anastomotic | deuterostome | monostomous | ozostomia | pentastomid | protostome | stoma | stomach | stomatalgia | stomatic | stomatoplasty | stome | stomate | stomachal | stomacher | stomachic | stomatal | stomatitis | stomatopod | stomatous | ostomy | tracheostomy | vasovasostomy | physostomous | Examples: deuterostome (second mouth) | Gnathostoma ("jaw mouth") Anastomus ("on mouth")

stomal | stomas | xerostoma | stomatous | parastomal | poststomal

στόμα (stóma)

στόμα, στόματος (stóma, stómatos)


stomachs | stomachy | stomacher | stomached | stomaches | stomaching

Greek stomachē 'the throat, the stomach'


anastomosis, anastomotic, deuterostome, monostomous, ozostomia, pentastomid, protostome, stoma, stomach, stomatalgia, stomatic, stomatoplasty, stome, stomate, stomachal, stomacher, stomachic, stomatal, stomatalgia, stomatic, stomatitis, stomatoplasty, stomatopod, stomatous, ostomy, tracheostomy, vasovasostomy, monostomous, physostomous

στόμα, στόματος (stóma, stómatos)


stomps | stompy | stomper | stomped | stomping | stompers

From Old English 'stōpan' meaning 'to stop, stand firm', derived from Proto-Germanic '*stōpjaną'.


formation of an opening | surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening in a body part specified by the first element

urostomy | neostomy | colostomy | ileostomy | caecostomy | cystostomy


stoned | stoner | stones | stonen | stoners | axstone

etymology taken from 'stone' < Old English stán OED


a person used as a decoy | a person who assists in a deception | a subordinate or lackey

From Dutch 'stoog' meaning 'clown' or 'buffoon', likely related to 'stoet' (procession) or 'stoot' (push), referring to a comic figure in farce.


stooly | stoolie | destool | stooled | enstool | stoolies


stoops | stoopy | astoop | stooped | stooper | stoopes


stops | unstop | instop | stoped | stopgap | stopped


to heap together | to gather over time | to retain | to set aside

Latin 'storare' (to pile up), from 'struere' (to build, pile)


storehouse, storage, bookstore, storeroom

storer | stores | stored | storers | instore | storeth


storeys | midstorey | overstorey | overstoreys

Old French 'estorie' (story/history) via Middle English


storks | storky | storklike | storksbill | storksbills


stormy, thunderstorm, brainstorm, snowstorm

stormy | storms | stormed | bestorm | stormer | storming


midstory | nonstory | substory | storyman | backstory | storybook

From Latin 'historia' meaning 'inquiry, knowledge of events', derived from Greek 'historia' (account, inquiry).


stouts | stouty | stoutly | stouten | stoutish | stoutens


stoves | stoved | stovetop | oilstove | stovepipe | woodstove


to pack | to store | to place in a safe place

stows | bestow | stowed | unstow | stowage | bestows

Old English stōw "place, meeting place, storehouse"


the act of squinting | the muscles controlling eye movement

Greek strabismos 'a squinting, looking askance'


to sit or stand with a leg on either side of | to span | to overlap

astraddle | straddler | straddles | straddled | straddlers | bestraddle

From Old English 'strǣdan' meaning 'to spread out, stretch, or extend', related to the notion of spreading limbs or objects across a space.


to move sideways | to dodge | to sidestep

From German 'streifen' (to stripe, to sweep across), adopted into English military slang in the early 20th century to describe aircraft firing across a target.


to move with difficulty | to wander aimlessly | to struggle

straggler | straggled | straggles | stragglers | stragglesome

likely from Middle English straglen, related to straggle


straight, straighten, straightway, straightness, straight-faced

straights | straighty | straighten | straightly | unstraight | costraight


astringent, stringent, strict, district, restrict, constrict, restrain, constraint

strains | astrain | strainer | strained | unstrain | upstrain


strait | straiten | straitjacket | strait-laced | strait Variant Spellings: distraught | distraught

straits | straitly | straitness | straitjacket | straitjackets

strain / strain, stress / stress, strict / strict, string / string

Old English strēht, past participle of strēcan 'to stretch, extend'


strands | astrand | stranded | strander | unstrand | strandee


stranged | stranges | strangely | unstrange | bestrange | strangelet

Old French estrange, from Vulgar Latin *extraneus 'foreign, strange', from Latin extraneus 'outside, foreign', from extra 'outside'


strangler | strangled | strangles | stranglers | stranglest | strangleth

Middle English stranglen, related to strangle


Latin strangulatus, past participle of strangulare 'to choke, strangle', of uncertain origin, possibly from Greek stragēle 'halter, noose'


to fasten | a strip of material | to bind

straps | strappy | unstrap | straped | strapper | strapped

Middle English strap (a strip of leather)


stratagem | strategic | strategist | strategus | strategy | stratocracy | stratography | stratonic

στρατός (stratós) | στρατηγία (stratēgía) | στρατηγία(stratēgía) | Greek stratos : army --> stratēgema : a general (of the army)


distribute | scatter | extend | flatten | stratum | extend outward | lay flat | surface | stratum

stratum, stratagem, stratify, stratocracy, stratiform

Latin stratum, past participle of sternere 'to spread, stretch out'

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Latin stratagema, from Greek stratēgema 'generalship, stratagem', from stratēgos 'general'


military commander's action | general's activity


stratotype | stratopause | stratotypes | stratosphere | stratopauses | stratography

Latin stratum, past participle of sternere 'to spread, lay down'


dried stalk of grain | dry plant material

straws | strawy | strawen | strawed | bedstraw | strawing

Old English 'strow' (to strew, spread) or 'stros' (dried stalks)


to wander | to deviate | to wander from a path

strays | strayed | strayer | straying | nonstray | strayers

Old French 'estrayer' 'to cause to wander'


continuous series | consecutive sequence | line

streaks | streaky | streaker | streaked | restreak | bestreak

Middle English streke "a line, a stripe"


upstream, downstream, mainstream, livestream

streams | streamy | astream | upstream | streamer | streamed

Old English strēam 'stream, flow, current'


streetcar, streetlight, streetwise, downtown, uptown

streets | streety | streeted | bystreet | upstreet | restreet

From Old English 'strete', borrowed from Latin 'strata (via)' meaning 'paved road'.


Old English 'strength' from 'strang' (strong) + '-th' (suffix forming abstract nouns)


Latin strenuus 'active, vigorous, lively'


Examples: Streptophyta ("bent plant") | Streptococcus ("twisted granule") | Streptospondylus ("twisted vertebra") | streptococcus | streptomyces | streptomycin | streptolysin | streptokinase

streptose | streptophyte | streptolysis | streptococcus | streptophytes | streptokinase

στρεπτός (streptós)

Greek στρεπτός (streptos) 'twisted, bent'


Greek streptos 'twisted' + kokkos 'berry/grain'


the female or wife of the type denoted by the firs

female counterpart or spouse associated with the initial element | female

stressy | stressor | stressed | stresses | eustress | destress

forming ns. denoting female persons or animals, is < French -esse ...< Greek -ισσα, suffix1 OED


strain / strain, strait / strait, strict / strict, string / string

Latin preposition/stress 'stare' 'to stand' + 'super' 'over'


stretch, stretched, stretching, stretchy, outstretch, overstretch

stretchy | astretch | stretcher | stretches | restretch | unstretch

Old English streccan 'to extend, stretch out'


to scatter | to spread loosely | to distribute

strews | strewed | bestrew | instrew | strewer | bestrews

From Old English streowian, from Proto-Germanic *strēwjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ster- 'to spread'


expression of truth | agreement | emphasis

Contraction of 'true' and 'as' or 'truth'


marked with grooves | striped | striated

striated | striates | prostriate | unstriated | nonstriate | nonstriated

From Latin striatus, past participle of striare 'to groove or furrow', derived from striga 'furrow, ridge'.


strict, strictly, strictness, stringent, stricture

Latin 'strictus', past participle of 'stringere' meaning 'to draw tight'


impacted by the meaning of the initial component | profoundly influenced by the significance of the first element

etymology taken from stricken, adj. definition 4(a-c) OED


fasten | drag | tighten | compressed | vertical | rigid

astringent | stringent | strict | district | restrict | constrict | restrain | constraint | constrain | constringe | strain | air-tight | airtight | gas-tight | skin-tight | skintight | uptight | watertight | constriction

strictly | unstrict | strictish | strictness | overstrict | semistrict


strifes | strifeful | makestrife | gainstrife | strifeless

Old English strīf 'strife, conflict, contention'


striker | strikes | strikee | striketh | restrike | strikers

Old English strican 'to move, to go, to strike'


fasten | tug | tighten | constricted | erect | rigid | quickened pace | building intensity | compress | apply force

astringent | stringent | strict | district | restrict | constrict | restrain | constraint | constrain | constringe | strain | air-tight | airtight | gas-tight | skin-tight | skintight | uptight | watertight | stringendo

strings | stringy | stringer | stringed | unstring | restring

strain / strain, strait / strait, stress / stress, strict / strict

Latin 'stringere' meaning 'to bind, pull tight'

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strips | stript | strippy | outstrip | airstrip | stripper

Old English strīpan "to plunder, rob, or strip"


to make great efforts | to struggle | to endeavor

striven | strived | strives | striver | striveth | strivers

Old French estriver 'to struggle, contend'


to struggle | to make great efforts | to endeavor

Old English strifan 'to strive, contend', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch strijden and German streiten.


anastrophe | antistrophe | apostrophe | boustrophedon | catastrophe | catastrophic | catastrophism | epistrophe | monostrophe | monostrophic | strophe | strophic | strobe | strobila | strobile | strobilus | stroboscope

στρέφειν (stréphein) | στρεπτός (streptós) | στροφή (strophḗ) | Greek strophē : a turning | a twist strephein : to turn


a horizontal line used to strike through text | a single mark in a strikethrough notation | a typographical element indicating deletion

strokes | stroked | stroker | upstroke | strokers | umstroke


strolls | strolled | stroller | strollers | strolling | midstroll

From Old French 'estroller' or 'estourler', meaning to wander or stray, possibly of Germanic origin.


anastrophe, antistrophe, apostrophe, boustrophedon, catastrophe, catastrophic, catastrophism, epistrophe, monostrophe, monostrophic, strophe, strophic

στρέφειν (stréphein), στρεπτός (streptós), στροφή (strophḗ)


having great power, intensity, or physical strength

strongly | stronger | unstrong | strongman | strongbox | strongish

Old English 'strang' meaning powerful or tight


strops | stropped | stropping | unstropped | stroppings

From Old English streopan 'to strip, scrape', related to Dutch strooien 'to scatter'.


to struggle | to contend | to exert effort

Old English strīfan 'to strive, struggle'


structure, construct, destruction, instruct, obstruct

Latin 'struere' meaning 'to build, pile up'


unstruck | awestruck | sunstruck | gobstruck | flystruck | dumbstruck

Old English 'strican' 'to strike, rub, or move'


compose | erect | fabricate | assemble | disperse

structure, construction, destruction, instruct, obstruct

Latin 'structus', past participle of 'struere' meaning 'to build, pile up'


From German Strudel, from strudeln 'to twist, roll up', from Middle High German strūdel 'whirlpool, eddy'.


to strive against resistance | to contend with difficulty | to fight

struggled | struggles | struggler | strugglers | strugglest | struggleth

Middle English struggle, possibly from Old French struggle


to play a stringed instrument by sweeping the strings

strums | strummy | strummer | strummed | strummers | strumming

From Old English 'struman' meaning 'to flow, stream', derived from the Proto-Germanic root '*strum-' related to flowing or streaming, later extended to the motion of fingers across strings.


high-strung, highly_strung, overstrung, unstrung

Old English strungan 'to bind, to thread'


to walk with a stiff, proud gait | to display confidence

struts | astrut | bestrut | strutted | strutter | strutting

From Middle Dutch 'struten' or 'struyten' meaning 'to strut, swagger', possibly related to Old French 'estruer' (to stir up, agitate).


Latin 'stupeo' (to be stunned, be amazed)


stubs | stubby | stubbie | stubbed | stubber | stubbies

Middle English, from Old French estubbe, from Latin stupa 'hemp, tow'


short stiff hairs on the skin | rough surface

stubbles | stubbled | bestubbled | stubbleless | permastubble

Middle English stubbel, from Old English stubba 'stump'


stubborns | stubbornly | unstubborn | outstubborn | stubbornness | outstubborns

Middle English 'stubborn', likely from 'stube' (stube/study) + '-born' (born/bred)


stuccoes | stuccoed | stuccoer | stuccoing | stuccoers | stuccoist


Stuckism | Stuckist | stuckness | stuckholder | stuckholders


to examine closely | to acquire knowledge | to exert effort

étude | student | studio | studious | study | understudy Variant Spellings: étude | etui

studs | studly | studes | bestud | studded | bestuds


nonstudio | megastudio | studiolike | poststudio | megastudios | telestudios


stuffs | stuffed | stuffer | stuffie | unstuff | restuff

Middle English stuffe, from Old English stuf


to trip | to lose balance | to move unsteadily

stumbled | stumbler | stumbles | stumblers | stumbleth | stumblebum


remnant | base | part of a tree left in the ground

stumps | stumpy | stumped | stumper | restump | stumpie

Middle English stump (remnant of a tree)


to daze | to shock | to render unconscious

stuns | stunner | stunned | stunning | stunners | stunpoll

Middle English stunnen 'to be dazed, to be in a stupor'


to sting | to cause sharp pain | to feel a sharp, pricking sensation

From Old English 'stingan' (to sting), from Proto-Germanic '*stanganą', from Proto-Indo-European '*steng-' (to prick, sting).


a feat of skill and courage | a trick or illusion

stunted | atstunt | stuntman | stunting | stuntmen | stunteth

From Old French 'estour' (battle, fight), from Vulgar Latin 'expugnare' (to conquer), ultimately from Latin 'expugnare'.


marvel | to shock | to lose awareness | to be dazed

stupor, stupefy, stupendous, stupefaction

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amazing | causing astonishment | overwhelming

stupendously | unstupendous | stupendousness

Latin stupendus 'that must be wondered at', gerundive of stupere 'to be stunned, amazed'


In a state of stupor | Paralysed | Unconscious or insensate

stupids | stupidy | stupidly | unstupid | stupidity | stupidish

From Latin 'stupor', meaning 'stupor' or 'paralysis'.


stupors | stuporous | stuporlike | stuporously | stuporousness

State of consciousness, Physical sensation

Latin stupere 'to be stunned, be amazed'


Physical properties, Strength, Durability

Latin 'durus' meaning hard, tough, or stubborn


Middle English sturdi, from Old French esturdi 'confused, stunned' (past participle of esturdir), from Vulgar Latin *sturdire, of Germanic origin


From Old English stur(e)geon, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sturje and German Stör.


to speak with involuntary pauses | to repeat sounds or syllables

stutters | stuttery | stutterer | stuttered | stuttering | stutterers

Middle English 'stoteren', related to 'stot' (to leap/stop)


beauty, courtesy, loyalty, mystery, poverty, security

pigsty | hogsty | styful | stylike | swinesty

Nominalizer, Abstract Noun, State/Condition

Latin suffix -tia forming abstract nouns from adjectives/stems


dark | gloomy | related to the underworld

Greek 'Stygios' referring to the River Styx


stygian | dark | gloomy | related to the underworld


vertical structure | upright support | pos | sharp object | pointed tool | writing tool | writing method | style


pertaining to | relating to | characterized by


From Middle English 'stymmen' (to block or obstruct), possibly of Scandinavian origin (cf. Old Norse 'stymja' to hinder), though the exact ultimate origin is uncertain.


styrenes | polystyrene | polystyrenes | nitrostyrene | nitrostyrenes | pentafluorostyrene


atrocious, detest, execrate, odious, odium, stygian


submarine, submerge, succumb, suffix, suggest, supplant, support, surreal, suspect


convince | advocate | impel | pleasing | delightful

persuade | assuage | persuasive | dissuade | persuasion | soave | assuasive | suasion | suave Variant Spellings: soave

Latin suādēre 'to urge, persuade', from PIE *swād- 'sweet, pleasant'


persuade, assuage, persuasive, dissuade, persuasion


act of persuading | influence | persuasion

Latin -sūsiō, from past participle stem of suādere 'to urge, persuade'


positioned beneath or underneath | lesser in value or rank | subordinate in status or hierarchy | partially formed or lacking completeness | directed downward | secondary in order or importance

submarine, subzero, substandard, subterranean, subtitle

subs | resub | subway | subset | sublet | subpar

Latin preposition/subordinating conjunction 'sub' meaning 'under, below, beneath'

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bring under control | overcome | suppress

subdued | subdues | subduer | subdueth | subduers | subduest


to elevate | to refine | to change from solid to gas

sublimation, sublimate, subliminal, sublimity

desublimate | desublimated | desublimates

From Latin sublimatus, past participle of sublimare 'to raise up, elevate', from sublimis 'high, elevated'.


sublimes | sublimed | sublimer | sublimely | resublime | sublimeth

Latin sublimis 'up to the mark, high', from sub- 'up' + limen 'threshold'


submits | resubmit | unsubmit | submitted | resubmits | submitter

Latin 'mittere' meaning 'to send, let go, release'


to bribe | to induce to commit an unlawful act

suborns | suborned | suborner | subornee | suborning | suborners

Latin subornare 'to equip, prepare, bribe', from sub- 'under' + ornare 'to equip, adorn'


subsequently | subsequential | subsequentness | subsequentially

Latin 'subsequens', present participle of 'subsequi' (to follow after), from 'sub-' (under, after) + 'sequi' (to follow)


From Latin 'subsidium' (help, aid, reinforcement), derived from 'sub-' (under) + 'sistere' (to stand, place).


substantial, substantiate, substantival, substantiation

substances | substanced | exosubstance | nonsubstance | polysubstance | substanceless

Latin substantia 'substance, essence, being', from substare 'stand firm, stand under'


material form | fundamental nature | resources for survival

consubstantiation, substance, substantial, substantiate, substantive, transubstantiation

Latin substantia 'being, essence, substance', from substans 'standing under, existing', present participle of substare 'to stand under'


cosubstrates | nanosubstrates | pseudosubstrates | phosphosubstrates


Latin subtilis 'fine, thin, precise', from sub- 'under' + tilis 'spread out' (related to texere 'to weave')


delicate | fine | precise | difficult to perceive

unsubtle | subtlely | nonsubtle | subtleness | oversubtle | supersubtle

From Latin 'subtilis' meaning 'fine, thin, delicate', derived from 'sub-' (under) + 'tela' (web).


lower in position | beneath the surface | of lesser rank | below in location

suffer | submissive | succumb | submarine | submerge | suffix | suggest | supplant | support | surreal | suspect | succeed | success


Latin succedere 'to come after, follow, perform', from sub- 'under' + cedere 'to go, move'


success, succession, successive, successor

succeeds | succeeded | succeeder | succeeding | succeeders | unsucceeded

Latin succedere 'to come after, follow upon', from sub- 'under' + cedere 'to go'


success | achievement | favorable outcome

unsuccess | insuccess | successism | successful | successive | nonsuccess

Latin successus 'a climbing up, ascent, progress', from succedere 'to come after, follow, succeed'


successions | successional | successionism | successionist | successionists | successionally

Latin successio(n-), from succedere 'to come after, follow'


following in order | following without interruption

Latin successus 'a following, result', from succedere 'to come after, follow'


one who follows | next in line | descendant

succession, succeed, successive, succubus

successors | successoral | successorship | successorships

Latin successor, from succedere 'to come after, follow'


succinctly | unsuccinct | succinctness | unsuccinctly

Latin succinctus, past participle of succingere 'to gird up', from sub- 'under' + cingere 'to gird'


succors | succored | succorer | succorers | succorest | succoreth

Latin succurrere 'run to help', from sub- 'under' + currere 'run'


female demon | seductive spirit | incubus counterpart

From Latin 'succuba' (female demon who lies upon men), from 'succubare' (to lie under), from 'sub-' (under) + 'cubare' (to lie down)


Latin succulentus, from succus 'juice, sap'


succumbs | succumbed | succumber | succumbing | succumbest | succumbeth

Latin succumbere 'to yield, give way', from sub- 'under' + cumbere 'to lie down'


of the same kind | to this degree | in this manner

Old English 'swilc' (of such kind), from 'swā' (so) + '-lic' (like)


To draw something inward, typically without direct contact | To extract by drawing in | To take in by suction

sucks | sucky | sucker | sucked | suckle | insuck

From Proto-Germanic *sukōną, meaning 'to suck'.


to draw milk or nourishment from a breast or teat | to feed at the breast


sucroses | nonsucrose | sucroselike | lactosucrose | fluorosucrose | galactosucrose

From Latin sucrosum, from sucus 'juice, sap'


exudate | exude | sudarium | sudoriferous | transudate | sudatorium | sudatory | sudorific | transude

suds | sudsy | sudser | sudded | sudses | sudsed


suddens | suddenly | unsudden | suddenness | unsuddenly | supersudden

Latin sub- 'under' + ita- 'step' (from ire 'to go')


sued | suer | sues | sueth | suers | suest


suedey | suedes | sueded | suedette | suedehead | suedelike


consuetude, desuetude, mansuetude unrelated: suet

Latin suetus 'accustomed, used to', past participle of solēre 'to be accustomed'


subterfuge | submarine | submerge | succumb | suffix | suggest | supplant | support | surreal | suspect


to undergo | to endure | to be subjected to

suffers | suffered | sufferer | suffering | sufferers | suffereth

Latin sufferre 'to bear, endure, undergo', from sub- 'up from under' + ferre 'to bear'


sufficient, sufficiency, insufficient, insufficiency, suffuse

sufficed | suffices | sufficer | sufficeth | sufficest | sufficers

Latin sufficere 'to put under, supply, satisfy', from sub- 'under' + facere 'to make, do'


to choke | to obstruct breathing | to overwhelm

Latin suffocatus, past participle of suffocare 'to choke, stifle', from sub- 'under' + fauces 'throat'


suffragans | suffraganship | suffraganships

Latin suffraganeus, from suffragium 'vote, support'


suffrages | suffrager | suffraged | suffragers | suffragette | suffragettes

Latin suffragium 'vote, opinion, support'


inferior in measure | acting as a replacement | covertly | beneath in position

suggest | subtract | suffuse | support | submarine | submerge | succumb | suffix | supplant | surreal | suspect


to compliment someone | to make something sweet or pleasant

sugars | sugary | sugared | desugar | sugarer | sugaring


suggestion, suggestive, suggestibility, suggester

suggests | suggested | suggester | suggestion | suggesting | suggesters

Latin 'suggerere' (to supply, bring up, suggest), from 'sub-' (under) + 'gerere' (to carry, bear)


Latin sui (genitive of se 'himself, herself, itself, themselves')


lawsuit, pursuit, suit (all senses), suitable, suitcase, suite, suitor

suits | suited | unsuit | suiter | besuit | lawsuit

From Latin 'sequi' (to follow) via Old French 'suite'


sulfasalazine | sulfacetamide | sulfathiourea | sulfasuccinamide | sulfachrysoidine

From Latin sulfureus 'of sulfur', derived from sulfur 'sulfur'


sulky | sulks | sulked | sulker | sulkily | sulking

From Middle Dutch 'sullen' (to be silent, to sulk), possibly related to Old English 'sull' (silent).


Middle English sully, from Old French souiller


sulphate, sulphite, sulphide, sulphurous

From Greek 'thion' (sulfur), via Latin 'sulphur'


Latin sulphur (gen. sulphuris) 'sulfur' + -eus suffix forming adjectives


sultans | sultanic | sultanry | sultanate | sultaness | sultanates

Arabic sulṭān 'authority, power', from s-l-t 'to be powerful, to rule'


hot and humid | passionate | sexually attractive

Latin 'sulfureus' (sulfurous), from 'sulfur' due to the association of sulfur with heat and fire


submarine, submerge, succumb, suffix, suggest, supplant, support, surreal, suspect

sums | resum | summer | summed | sumset | subsum


assume | assumption | consume | consumption | presumption | subsume | presume | presumptuous | resume | résumé | sumptuary | sumptuous

Latin 'sumere' meaning 'to take, seize, assume'


a type of shrub or small tree | a sour-tasting berry


assume, consume, resume, presume, resume

Latin 'sumere' (past participle 'sumptus') meaning 'to take, seize, appropriate'


something | something or other | anything


the season following spring and preceding autumn

summery | summers | summered | summerly | midsummer | summerish


summits | summitry | summited | summiteer | summiting | presummit


the state or practice of being at the top | peak | zenith

Latin summus 'highest' (superlative of super 'above') + -trīa (abstract noun suffix)


summons | summoned | summoner | resummon | unsummon | summoning

Latin 'summonere' (to remind, put in mind), from 'sub-' (under) + 'monere' (to warn, advise)


summonsed | summonses | summonsing | unsummonsed


Latin suffix -tor, -tōr- (agent noun former from past participle stems), related to facere 'to do'


sumps | sumpy | sumpman | sumplike | sumpless


assume | assumption | consume | consumption | presumption | subsume


Latin sumptus, past participle of sumere 'to take, consume'


sumptuary | relating to spending | relating to consumption

from Latin sumptuarius, from sumptus 'expense, cost', past participle of sumere 'to take'


sumptuously | unsumptuous | sumptuousness

Latin sumptuosus, from sumptus (past participle of sumere 'to take, spend')


suns | sunup | sunny | sunly | upsun | sunset


From 'Sunday' + '-ae' (diminutive or phonetic suffix), coined in the late 19th century for the ice cream treat.


sunders | sundered | tosunder | sunderly | sundering | dissunder


vocalized | musical | performed via song

Old English 'sungon', past participle of 'singan'


sunk | submerged | past participle of sink

From Old English 'sencan' (to cause to sink) and 'sincan' (to sink), from Proto-Germanic '*sankwijaną'.


sunny, sunset, sunrise, sunflower, insulate

From Old English 'sunne', meaning the celestial body or the day.


sups | supper | supped | supping | suppage | suppeth


beyond normal limits | higher than | better than others | on top of | to an extreme degree | beyond or higher than | added to | greater than usual | exceeding normal levels

superman, superpower, superstitious, superimpose, superlative

supers | superly | superman | superego | Superman | superset

Attribute intensifier | preposition-like | Anomalous form

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From Latin 'super' meaning 'above, over, beyond'


excellent | of the highest quality | magnificent

superbo | superbly | superbity | superbness

Latin superbus 'proud, haughty', from super 'above'


to do more than is required | beyond duty

Latin supererogatus, past participle of supererogare 'to do beyond what is required', from super- 'over' + erogare 'to pay out'


Latin superus 'above, upper', from super 'above'


superseded | supersedes | superseder | superseders | unsuperseded


superstitions | superstitionist | superstitionists | superstitionless

Latin superstitionem (nominative supersticio) 'overbelief, excessive religion', from super 'over' + stare 'to stand'


having or showing a strong belief in superstitions

superstitiously | unsuperstitious | nonsuperstitious | superstitiousness | unsuperstitiously

from Latin superstitionem (nominative superstitio) 'superstition, excessive religious fear', from super- 'over' + stare 'to stand'


suppers | supperless | suppertime | suppertimes

Old French souper 'to sup, eat supper', from Vulgar Latin *suppare 'to eat the last course', from Latin super 'over, above'


supplants | supplanted | supplanter | supplanting | supplanters | supplanteth

Latin supplantare 'to overthrow, trip up', from sub- 'under' + planta 'sole of the foot'


Latin 'supplex' (kneeling, humble) from 'suplex' (bent under), from 'sub-' (under) + 'plectere' (to plait, weave)


Latin supplex 'suppliant, humble' (from sub- 'under' + plicare 'to fold')


to provide | to furnish | to make available

resupply | oversupply | supplyment | undersupply | supplyments | oversupplying

Latin 'supplere' meaning 'to fill up, complete'


supports | supported | supporter | supporting | supporters | supportive

Latin 'sustinere' (to hold up, sustain), from 'sub-' (up from under) + 'tenere' (to hold)


Latin suppuratus, past participle of suppurare 'to form pus', from sub- 'under' + purare 'to cleanse, purify'


positionally higher than something else | exceeding normal limits | overstated or magnified | increased in intensity or degree | transcending limits or expectations | more than usual or expected

supraorbital vein | supranormal | supra-regions | supraorbital | suprasegmental | suprarenal | supranationalism | supraliminal | supreme | supremacy | soprano | supralapsarian | supranational | suprarenal Variant Spellings: soprano | superficial (above face)

suprafix | supranet | supramax | supranets | supraural | supraoral

Latin praefix 'supra' meaning 'above, over'

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supremes | supremed | supremely | supremeness

Latin superus 'above, on high', from super 'above'


upon | higher than | in excess | ascending direction | definite | safe | past limit | to ascend | elevated

surplus, survey, surface, surpass, surge

surbed | surpay | surpass | surtext | surbase | surbeds

Attribute intensifier | preposition-like | Capability

Latin preposition 'super' meaning 'over, above'

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incapable of hearing | imperceptible to the ear


surely | unsure | surety | unsured | cocksure | sureness

From Latin 'securus' meaning 'free from care' (se- 'without' + cura 'care'), later evolving to mean 'certain' or 'fixed' in legal and general contexts.


to ride on waves | to move over a surface

surfy | surfer | surfed | surfing | egosurf | surfers

Middle English surf, related to surfeiting


surfaces | surfaced | surfacer | resurface | surfacers | subsurface


reducing surface tension | agent that lowers tension

Latin surfactans, present participle of surfacere 'to rise to the surface', from sub- 'under' + facere 'to make'


surfeits | surfeited | surfeiter | surfeiting | surfeiters | surfeitive


insurgent | insurrection | resurgent | resurrection | assurgent | surge | surreptitious


sudden increase | powerful movement | overflow

surged | surges | upsurge | surgeth | surgest | upsurges

Latin surgere 'to rise, get up', from sur- 'up' + agere 'to do, drive'


surmised | surmises | surmiser | surmisers | unsurmised | presurmise

Latin 'surgere' (to rise) via past participle stem 'sursum' (upwards) + '-misi' (from 'mittere', to send); literally 'to send up' (one's thoughts)


a long, loose outer liturgical vestment worn by clergy

Latin superplicea, from super- 'over' +plica 'fold'


surprised | surprises | surpriser | surprisers | unsurprise | unsurprised

Old French 'surprendre' (to overtake, seize)


insurgent | insurrection | resurgent | resurrection

comb of sub / sub + rect / rect / : surg / surg / : source / source

Latin surrectus, past participle of surregere 'to raise up, rise', from sub- 'up from under' + regere 'to stretch, guide'


insurgent, insurrection, resurgent, resurrection


to yield | to give up | to cease resistance

surrenders | surrendered | surrenderer | surrenderee | surrenderor | surrendering

Old French surrendre 'to give back, hand over'


Latin surrepticius 'secretly taken', from surreptus, past participle of surripere 'to steal, take secretly', from sub- 'up from under' + rapere 'to seize'


surrounds | surrounded | surrounder | surrounding | Sensurround | surroundeth


Latin sursum (adverb) 'upwards', from super 'above' + sum 'up'


sustain | suspense | submarine | submerge | succumb | suffix | suggest | supplant | support | surreal | suspect


Japanese 'sushi' (すし/寿司), derived from the classical Japanese verb 'susu' (to sour) referring to the fermentation process of preserving fish in rice.


suspect, suspicion, suspicious, suspectible

suspects | suspected | suspector | unsuspect | suspectly | suspecting

Latin 'suspectus', past participle of 'suspicere' meaning 'to look up at, examine, watch'


suspenses | suspenser | suspensers | suspenseful | nonsuspense | suspenseless

Latin suspensus, past participle of suspendere 'to hang up, suspend'


suspicion, suspicious, suspect, suspection

Latin suspicere 'to look up at, observe, suspect', from sub- 'under' + specere 'to look'


Sussex (county in England) | South Saxons

Geography, History, Ethnicity, Place Name

From Old English 'Sūþseaxe' meaning 'South Saxons', derived from 'Saxe' (Saxon) + 'sūþ' (south).


sutures | sutured | resuture | unsutured | resutured | resutures

Latin sutura 'sewing, suture', from suere 'to sew'


suzerains | suzerainty | suzerainties | suzerainship | suzerainships

Old French suzerain, from suzerain (sovereign)


Middle English swaben, of unknown origin, possibly related to Old Norse sveipa 'to wrap'


swaggering | strutting | walking with an arrogant or conceited air

swagger, swaggering, swaggered, swaggerer

swaggers | swaggery | aswagger | swaggered | swaggerer | swaggering


swains | coxswain | swainish | swaining | boatswain | coxswains


a deep chasm | an abyss | a vast hollow in the earth

swallows | swallowed | swallower | reswallow | unswallow | swalloweth


swamps | swampy | swamped | swamper | swamping | swampily

Middle English 'swamp' (originally meaning a marsh or bog)


swans | swanny | swanly | cobswan | nonswan | swanherd


swaps | swapt | toswap | swapped | swapper | swaption

Old English swappian 'to exchange, to barter'


sword, broadsword, longswords, swordsman

swards | swardy | swarded | greensward | swardspeak | greenswards

Old English sweord, from Proto-Germanic *swertaz


large group | multitude | dense collection

swarms | aswarm | swarmy | swarmed | swarmer | upswarm

From Latin 'swarmus' or 'swarma' (a swarm, crowd), possibly of Germanic origin, entering English via Old French or directly from Germanic roots meaning 'to swarm' or 'crowd'.


Middle English swart, from Old English sweart


to strike | to slash | to move with flamboyant energy

swasher | swashes | swashed | swashers | swashing | swashings

Dutch 'swaas' (blow, blast) or 'swaen' (swan, implying broad strokes), possibly from Old Norse 'svaða' (to sweep)


symbol of Nazi rule | emblem of the Nazi regime | associated with Nazi Germany


to strike or hit with a quick, sharp movement

swats | swatter | swatted | flyswat | swatting | swatters

From Old English 'swætan' meaning 'to strike, beat, or hit'.


a broad strip | a large area | a sweeping movement

Middle English swathe 'a strip of cloth'


sways | asway | swayed | upsway | swayer | swaying

Middle English swaien, from Old French swaiier


to use offensive language | to make an oath

swears | sweary | swearer | sweared | reswear | unswear

Old English swēran "to bind, to confirm by oath"


sweaty | sweats | sweater | sweated | unsweat | sweating


From Old Norse 'Svíþjóð', meaning 'land of the Svíar (Swedes)', derived from the Proto-Germanic root *swihwaz (self) + *þjóðą (people).


From the name of the country Sweden, derived from Old Norse Svíar (the Swedes).


to clean by brushing | to move with a wide motion | to clear

sweeps | sweepy | asweep | sweeper | upsweep | ensweep

Old English swāpan 'to sweep, move, or stir'


having a pleasant taste | agreeable to the senses | pleasing or delightful

sweetheart, sweeten, sweetness, sweetly, sweetish

sweets | sweety | sweeten | sweetie | sweetly | unsweet

Old English 'swēte' from Proto-Germanic '*swētuz'


to expand | to increase in size | to bulge

swells | swelled | sweller | upswell | unswell | reswell

Old English swellan 'to grow, increase, or puff up'


to suffer from oppressive heat | to be uncomfortably hot

From Old English 'sweltan' meaning 'to die, perish', related to German 'schwelten' and Gothic 'swiltan', originally referring to dying of heat or suffocation.


backswept, tempest-swept, unswept, windswept

upswept | unswept | inswept | seaswept | sunswept | windswept

Old English swāpan 'to sweep, move with a brushing motion'


to deviate | to turn aside | to change direction

swerved | swerves | swerver | swerveth | swervest | swervers

From Old English 'swifan' meaning 'to move swiftly' or 'to glide', related to 'swift'.


swifts | swiftly | swiftie | Swiftie | swiften | swiftlet


to drink greedily | to gulp | liquid waste

swills | swiller | swilled | swilling | swillers | pigswill

From Old English swilian 'to swallow, gulp down', of Germanic origin.


swims | aswim | swimmy | upswim | swimmer | preswim

From Old English 'swimman', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch 'zwemmen' and German 'schwimmen'.


From Middle French 'soudoyer' (to bribe, suborn), from 'sous' (under) + 'doier' (to do)


to move back and forth | to oscillate | to brandish

swingy | swings | aswing | inswing | upswing | swinger

Middle English swingen, from Old English swengian 'to move, stir, or swing'


to move with a sweeping motion | to strike or brush aside

swiped | swipes | swiper | swipey | swipers | unswiped


to move in a twisting pattern | spiral | vortex

swirls | swirly | aswirl | swirled | swirlie | unswirl


swisses | Swissly | Swissess | Swissness | Swissland

From Middle High German 'Switzerland' (land of the Swabians), from 'Swaben' (Swabians) + '-land'


to change from one state or position to another | to move or transfer between different circuits | to alter or convert between different modes or systems

switchy | switches | switcher | switched | switching | switchers


From Middle High German 'Swizer', from Old High German 'Swabari', referring to the Swabian people who settled in the region.


faint | lose consciousness | overwhelm with emotion

swoons | swoony | aswoon | swooned | swooner | swooning


descend rapidly | move through the air with a curving motion

swoops | swoopy | swooped | swooper | swooping | swoopers

From Old English 'swūpan' meaning 'to sweep, sweep away', related to the concept of sweeping motion.


a bladed weapon | a sharp cutting instrument

swords | sworder | sworded | sworders | swordman | swording


to take an oath | to use profane language


swots | swotty | swotted | swotter | swotting | swotters


moved in a continuous curved motion | moved back and forth

Old English swīngan 'to strike, wound, or move in a swing'


symphony | synonym | system | syllable | syllogism | symbol | symmetry | sympathy | synchronous | systaltic | symptom | synalgia | synesthesia | syssarcosis

σύν (sún) | Greek σῠν- (sun-) | with | together


self-indulgent | luxury-loving | hedonistic


sycomancy | sycophant | sycomore | syconium | sycosis unrelated: sycamore


sycophants | sycophantic | sycophantry | sycophantly | sycophantism | sycophantize

Greek sykophantēs 'informer' (lit. 'fig-shower')


united | analogously | similar | alongside

syllable | syllabus | syllogism | symbol | symmetry | sympathy | synonym | synchronous | systaltic | system


Greek syllabē 'a collection of letters, a syllable'


conclusion | inference | logical deduction

Greek syllogismos 'inference, conclusion'


sylphs | sylphy | sylphic | sylphish | sylphlike

Latin sylpha, from Greek sylphē 'nymph of the air'


Pennsylvania | sylvan | Sylvester | Sylvia | Transylvania Variant Spellings: sylph | sylph


sylvans | sylvanite | sylvanites | sylvanshine | Pennsylvania | anthrosylvan


at the same time | combined | cooperating | in unison | in a comparable manner | identical in nature | alongside

symphony | synonym | system | syllable | symbiosis | symmetry | syllogism | symbol | sympathy | synchronous | systaltic

sympathy | sympitar | symmorph | sympitars | sympathin | sympathies

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symbols | symbolic | symbolry | symbolism | symbolize | symbolics

Latin 'symbolum' meaning 'token, pledge, or sign', derived from Greek 'symbolon'


sympathovagal | sympathotropic | sympathomimetic | sympathoadrenal | sympathomimetics | sympathoneuronal

Greek sym- 'together' + pathos 'feeling/suffering'


drinking together | meeting | discussion

Greek symposium, from sym- 'together' + pinein 'to drink'


sign | indication | manifestation of a condition

symptoms | symptomize | subsymptom | symptomless | symptomized | symptomizes

Greek symptōma "a falling together, accident, symptom"


alongside | collectively | concurrently | combined | cooperatively | comparably | identical | equal

symphony | synonym | system | syllable | synagogue | synchrony | synthesis | syllogism | symbol | symmetry | sympathy | synchronous | systaltic | synoptic | synchronized | asymmetric | asymptote | idiosyncrasy | symbiosis | symposium | symptom | synapse | synchronize | syncopate | syndicate | syndrome | synergy | synod | synopsis | syntax | synthetic

synonym | syngamy | syntype | syncarp | synform | synacme

Greek syn- (σύν), meaning 'with' or 'together'

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synagogues | unsynagogued | synagoguegoer | synagoguegoers | cybersynagogue | cybersynagogues

Greek synagoge 'assembly' from sun- 'together' + agein 'to lead'


synapsed | unsynapsed | neosynapse | postsynapse | presynapses | monosynapse


synaptosome | synaptogenic | synaptosomes | synaptosomal | synaptopathy | synaptocrine


syncs | synced | syncing | unsynced | syncword | syncwords


occurring at the same time | coordinated in timing | maintaining alignment in timing and/or pace

synchrocyclotron | synchroflash | synchromesh | synchronal | synchronic | synchronised | synchronism | synchronization | synchronize | synchronous | synchro | synchroscope | synchrotron

synchrotron | synchromesh | synchrogram | synchrotrons | synchroflash | synchromodal


syncopated | syncopates | unsyncopated | nonsyncopated


Greek sun- 'with, together' + demos 'people'


syndrome, metasyndrome, neurosyndrome, complex syndrome

syndromes | syndromed | subsyndrome | hemisyndrome | subsyndromes | megasyndrome

Greek syn- 'together' + dromos 'running'


synods | synodic | synodal | synodist | synodals | synodists

Greek sunodos 'assembly', from sun- 'together' + hodos 'way'


Greek synopsis, from syn- 'together' + opsis 'view'


Greek synopses 'a seeing together' from syn- 'together' + opsis 'view'


Greek synoptikos (seeing together) from syn- 'together' + ops 'eye'


suffering from syphilis | characterized by syphilis

From Greek syphilis (the disease) + -itic (adjective-forming suffix)


syphilosis | syphilology | syphilomania | syphilophobia | syphilologist | syphilological


From Greek Συρακοῦσαι (Syrakoûsai), the ancient name of the city in Sicily.


Syrianism | Syrianize | Syrianist | Syrianness

From Greek 'Syria', referring to the region of Syria.


syringe | Syringodea | Syringoderma | Syringogaster | syringoma | syringomyelia | syrinx

σύριγξ | σύριγγος (súrinx | súringos) | σύριγγος(súrinx


From Greek syringa 'pipe, flute' (due to the hollow stems of the plant), derived from syrigx 'pipe, flute'.


syrupy | syrups | syrupily | syruplike | syrupiness


concurrently | combined | cooperating with | in unison | in the same way | identical | accompanied by

symphony | synonym | system | syllable | syllogism | symbol | symmetry | sympathy | synchronous | systaltic

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ecosystem, subsystem, systemic, systematize

systems | systemic | systemin | systemed | ecosystem | diasystem

Latin systema 'a whole compounded of several parts or elements', from Greek systema 'a whole compounded of several parts'


plural suffix for Greek nouns ending in -a or -aton

inflectional; etymology extrapolated from 'stigmata', n.


tabs | tabbed | subtab | tabify | tabbing | tablike

Latin 'tabula' meaning 'plank, board, tablet'


Middle English tabby, related to tabby cloth


Latin tabernaculum 'tent, hut', diminutive of taberna 'shop, hut'


tables | tabled | tabler | entable | tablers | retable


flat slab | writing surface | medicinal pill

tablets | tableting | minitablet | minitablets

Latin tabula 'flat slab, board, writing tablet'


sensationalist | scandalous | mass-market journalism

tabloids | tabloidy | tabloidese | tabloidish | tabloidize | tabloidism

from 'tabloid' (small-format newspaper), related to 'tablet'


Prohibited by cultural norms | Socially unacceptable behavior | Forbidden due to tradition

taboos | tabooed | tabooer | tabooing | nontaboo | tabooers


Latin tabula 'flat surface, plank, tablet'


reticent | reticence | tacit | taciturn | tacet | taciturn Variant Spellings: reticent

From Latin 'tacitus', past participle of 'tacere' meaning 'to be silent'.


to remain mute | to refrain from speaking


tachometer | tachycardia | tachyrhythmia | tachytelic | tachograph

ταχύς (takhús) | τάχος (tákhos) | etymology taken from 'tachometer' | n. < Greek τάχος speed OED


tachycardia | tachometer | tachyrhythmia | tachytelic | tachygraphy | tachymetry

tachyon | tachyonic | tachypnea | tachylyte | tachypace | tachymeter

Greek τᾰχῠ́ς (takhús) | fast | quickly | ταχύς (takhús) | τάχος (tákhos) | combining form of Greek ταχύς swift OED


Latin tacitus 'silent, unspoken', past participle of taceri 'to be silent'


taciturnly | taciturnity | taciturnities

Latin taciturnus, from tacitus 'silent' + -urnus suffix


tacky | tacked | tacker | tacket | untack | retack

From Old English 'tæccan' meaning 'to take hold of, seize, or attach'.


tackles | tackler | tackled | tacklee | tacklers | retackle

Middle English taclen 'to equip, harness'


physical contact | organize | sequence | perceive through contact | systematize | configuration | separation

tactile, contact, tactile, tactility, tactful

tacts | tactful | tactless | tactfully | untactful | tactlessly

tain2 / tain | tang / tang / : tax1 / tax | tax2 / tax

Latin 'tact-' past participle stem of 'tangere' meaning 'to touch'

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tactics | tactical | ditactic | cistactic | tritactic | tacticals

Greek -taktikos 'pertaining to arrangement' from taktos 'arranged'


tactilely | untactile | nontactile | orotactile | Protactile | ProTactile

Latin tactus, past participle of tangere 'to touch'


sucktacular | craptacular | spooktacular | creeptacular | spooktacularly

From Latin -tāculus, a variant of the superlative suffix -culus (diminutive) or -culus combined with -āre, often forming adjectives meaning 'full of' or 'characterized by', derived from the root of 'tactus' (touch) or related to 'talis' (such), but in modern English '-tacular' is a productive suffix formed from 'spectacular' where 'specta-' is the root and '-cular' is the suffix, reanalyzed as '-tacular'. However, strictly speaking, '-tacular' is not a direct Latin suffix but an English morphological innovation. The ancestor is the Latin suffix '-culus' (diminutive) or '-cularis' (pertaining to), but the specific form '-tacular' comes from the English word 'spectacular'. Therefore, the direct etymology is English reanalysis of 'spectacular'.


diplotene | leptotene | pachytene | taenia | taenidia | taenidium | taeniodont | Taeniolabis | zygotene

τείνειν (teínein) | ταινία (tainía) | ταινίδιον (tainídion)


ataxia, chemotaxis, epitaxis, eutaxy, hypotaxis, magnetotaxis, metasyntactic, parataxis, phonotactic, phonotactics, phototaxis, rheotaxis, syntactic, syntagma, syntagmatic, syntax, tactic, tagma, taxis, taxonomy, thermotaxis

tags | retag | betag | untag | detag | taggy

τάσσειν (tássein), τακτός (taktós), τακτικός (taktikós), τάξις (táxis), τάγμα (tágma)


curtail, detail, entail, fee tail, retail, tail (limitation), tailor

tails | oxtail | tailed | betail | tailer | wagtail


retain | preserve | uphold | contact | immerse briefly | color | possess

obtain | detain | retain | sustain | entertain | pertain | maintain | abstain | abstention | abstinence | abstinent | appertain | appertinent | appurtenance | appurtenant | contain | containment | content | contentive | contentment | continence | continent | continental | continual | continuance | continuant | continuation | continuative | continue | continuity | continuous | continuum | contratenor | countenance | detainder | detainee | detainer | detainment | detention | detinue | discontent | discontentment | discontinuance | discontinuation | discontinue | discontinuity | discontinuous | entertainment | equicontinuity | equicontinuous | impertinence | impertinent | incontinence | incontinent | intenible | intercontinental | irretentive | lieutenant | maintenance | malcontent | obtainment | obtention | pertinacious | pertinacity | pertinence | pertinent | purtenance | reobtain | retainer | retainment | retention | retentive | retinue | se-tenant | sustenance | sustentacular | sustentaculum | sustentation | sustention | tenable | tenace | tenacious | tenacity | tenancy | tenant | tenet | tenor | tenure | tenurial | tenuto | transcontinental | attain | attainder | distain | stain | taint | contain (hold) | detain (hold down) | obtain (get and hold) | pertain (hold meaning to...)

ten1 / ten | tin1 / tin | tact1 / tact | tang / tang | tinct / tinct


Latin -mentum, noun suffix of result or means, from past participle stem of verbs


taints | tainted | tainter | untaint | tainting | tainture

Old French taint, past participle of teindre 'to dye, stain', from Latin tingere 'to dye, stain'


seize or receive something | capture or record (e.g., photograph) | assume or adopt a position | consume or ingest (e.g., medication) | accept or undertake a responsibility

double take, intake, mistake, outtake, overtake, partake, retake, take, takedown, takeoff, takeout, takeover, takeup, undertake, undertaker, uptake

taken | taker | takes | taked | intake | uptake


takin, retaking, overtaking, undertaking

Present participle of the verb 'take', derived from Old English 'tacan'.


talcy | talcum | talced | talcous | talcing | talcums

Arabic 'talkh' or 'talkhah' meaning 'powder' or 'chalk'


taler | tales | taled | talers | taleds | midtale


talents | talented | nontalent | talentful | talentless | untalented

Latin 'talentum' (weight, sum of money), from Greek 'talanton' (balance, weight)


reciprocal action of similar nature | penalty matching the offense

lex talionis | retaliate | talion | retaliation

Latin talio (gen. talionis) 'retaliation, retribution', from talis 'such, of such a kind'


Greek talismán (charm, amulet), from talismá (to inscribe, mark), from talaima (to mark with a seal)


talks | talky | talker | talked | uptalk | talkee

Old English 'talu' (story, relation, or discourse)


tally | talls | tallen | tallie | tallies | tallish


tallowy | tallows | betallow | tallower | tallowish | tallowers


Old French 'taille' (a cutting, a slice, or a list/account)


Talmudic | Talmudist | Talmudism | Talmudistic | Talmudvision

Hebrew talmud (תַּלְמוּד) from the root t-l-m 'to learn'


talons | taloned | talonless | talonlike | untaloned

From Latin 'talō' meaning 'talon, claw, nail'.


A percussion instrument with a hoop and jingling metal disks | any frame drum

Derived from Latin 'tympanum' via French 'tambour', referring to a drum


tamer | tamed | tames | tamely | tamers | entame

Old French 'tamer' from 'tame' (domesticated)


From Tamil 'Tamiḻ' (self-respect/refined speech), referring to the Dravidian language and its speakers.


tampering | untampered | tamperproof | antitampering

Middle English tampen 'to stuff, pack, or ram'


A plug made of absorbent material used to absorb fluid in a body cavity or wound | A medical device inserted during menstruation to absorb menstrual flow | A stopper used to block a wound or cavity

tampons | tamponed | tamponade | tamponing | tamponades | tamponaded

From Latin "tampōnāre," meaning to plug or stop.


tandems | tandemly | tandemer | tandemers | tandemist | tandemwise

Latin adverb 'tandem' meaning 'at last, finally', derived from 'tan-' (intensive prefix) + 'dem' (enclitic particle)


tangerine, tangerine-colored, tangerine tree

From Latin 'tangerinus' (of Tangier), from 'Tangier' (the city in Morocco), referring to the tangerine orange variety.


perceptible by touch | physical | palpable

tangibles | untangible | nontangible | tangibleness | nontangibles

From Latin tangibilis, from tangere 'to touch'


tangled | tangles | tangler | untangle | entangle | detangle

From Latin 'tangere' meaning 'to touch', via past participle 'tactus'.


From Spanish 'tango', referring to the dance and music genre originating in the Rio de la Plata region.


tank | water container | military vehicle

tanks | tanky | tanker | tanked | untank | tankie

From Dutch 'tank' meaning 'tank' or 'cistern', originally a coined term for water storage containers during the Boer War.


astringent | bitter | polyphenolic compound

tannins | iodotannin | ellagitannin | pseudotannin | tanniniferous | ellagitannins


Proper noun (brand name) used generically


From Old French tanaisie, from Latin tanacetum, from Greek tanaketon


expressing quantity | indicating extent or magnitude

Latin -tans, present participle suffix of verbs in -tare (frequentative or intensive form of -are), from the stem of the verb (e.g., tantus 'so great' or related to tango 'touch' in some derivations, but primarily the suffixal form of the present participle of verbs like *tantare* or simply the participial suffix -tans/-tantis)


to torment | to cause suffering | to tease

derived from Tantalus, a figure in Greek mythology


Latin aequus 'equal' + -tans (present participle stem of esse 'to be')


uncontrolled outburst | outburst of anger

From French 'tempête' (storm), from Old French 'tempeste', from Latin 'tempestas' (weather, storm, time).


From Chinese 道 (dào), meaning 'way', 'path', 'principle', or 'truth'.


tappy | retap | tapped | tapper | retaps | midtap

Middle English tappe, from Old French tapir 'to strike, tap', of Germanic origin; related to Old English tæppan.


taper | taped | tapes | tapers | retape | untape


to diminish in thickness | to narrow | to decrease

tapered | tapering | untapered | tapertail | multitaper | nanotapers

Middle English 'tapere' (candle), related to the idea of a diminishing shape


woven fabric | complex combination | intricate pattern

Middle English, from Old French tapisserie, from tapis 'carpet, cloth'


a small mechanical device that controls the opening and closing of valves

from Latin 'tappa' meaning 'plug' or 'stopper'


tars | tared | untar | tarry | retar | taring


Greek 'tarantos' (a type of fish) or reference to the city of Taranto


targets | targeted | retarget | targeter | targeteer | targeting

Latin 'targeta' or 'targere' (to thrust), from 'tactus' (touch)


tariffs | tariffed | tariffing | nontariff | tariffless | tariffication

From French 'tarif', from Arabic 'tārīf' meaning 'information' or 'notification', referring to a list of prices or duties.


to make cloudy or dull | to lose luster | to degrade in quality

tarnishes | tarnished | tarnisher | nontarnish | tarnishers | tarnishest

Old French tarnir 'to make cloudy, to darken'


Italian tarocchi, plural of tarocco, of uncertain origin, possibly from Arabic turuq 'paths' or Italian tarocco 'madder'


metatarsus | tarsal | tarsoclasis | tarsometatarsus | tarsus


having a high level of acidity | overly sour | sharp in taste

tarts | tarty | tartly | tarten | tartish | tartlet


tartans | tartanize | tartanizes | tartanized | tartanizing | tartanization

Scottish Gaelic 'tartan' (patterned cloth)


tartar | tartaric acid | residue from wine

tartars | Tartaric | tartarous | tartarine | tartarize | Tartarian

From Persian 'tatar' (a type of wine or dregs), via Italian 'tartaro' and French 'tartre', referring to the crystalline residue found in wine casks.


Greek tartaros (acid/sour) or related to tartaric acid


Greek -stasis (a standing, state, or condition)


tasks | tasked | tasker | attask | retask | tasking


tassels | detassel | tasseled | betassel | tasselled | pretassel


to perceive flavor | flavor | sensation of flavor

taster | tasted | tastes | retaste | untaste | tasters

From Old English 'tæstan' (to test, prove) and 'tast' (touch, taste), from Proto-Germanic '*tastijaną', ultimately from Proto-Indo-European '*tag-' (to touch).


poptastic | sextastic | asstastic | bumtastic | yumtastic | brotastic

blend of 'fantastic' and the suffix '-astic'


tats | tatty | tatter | tatted | tatting | tatters

Sensation, Physical contact, Arrangement

Latin 'tangere' (past participle stem 'tact-') meaning 'to touch'


imitative of the sound or action of tearing


to chatter | to report secrets | to gossip

tattler | tattled | tattles | tattlers | tattletale | tattletales


tattoos | tattooed | tattooer | tattooee | retattoo | tattooing


teach, teacher, teaching, teaches, taught

Old English tæcan "to show, declare, point out"


taunts | taunter | taunted | taunting | taunters | taunteth

Old French 'tanter' (to touch, to strike, to provoke)


male bovine | male bovine | castrated male bovine | male bovines

taurus | repr. Greek ταυρο- | combining form of ταῦρος bull OED


equal | pertaining to a single entity | equivalent in nature | self-same | exact replica | inherent | originating internally

tautological | tautochrone | tautog | tautologic | tautology | tautomerism | tautonym | tautonymous | tautonymy | tautozonal | tautolog | tautomer | autarchism | autarchy | autarky | authentic | autism | autistic | autocracy | autograph | automatic | automaton | autonomy

tautology | tautogram | tautograms | tautozonal | tautophony | tautologous

< ancient Greek ταὐτο- | combining form ... of ταὐτό | contraction of τὸ αὐτό  the same OED | Greek tauto to auto : the same autos : self | αὐτός (autós) ~self~ | ~same~

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