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  • English Word -s Definition An adverbial suffix; as in towards, needs, always, -- originally the genitive, possesive, ending. See -'s.
  • English Word -s Definition The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends.
  • English Word -s Definition The suffix used to form the plural of most words; as in roads, elfs, sides, accounts.
  • English Word -scope Definition A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
  • English Word -ses Definition of Apophysis
  • English Word -ship Definition A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
  • English Word -some Definition An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc.
  • English Word -some Definition A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
  • English Word -soria Definition of Ostensory
  • English Word -sories Definition of Ostensory
  • English Word -sporangia Definition of Zoosporangium
  • English Word -staffs Definition of Flagstaff
  • English Word -staves Definition of Flagstaff
  • English Word -ster Definition A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.
  • English Word -strucken Definition of Thunderstrike
  • English Word Saadh Definition See Sadh.
  • English Word Saan Definition Same as Bushmen.
  • English Word Sabadilla Definition A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.
  • English Word Sabaean Definition Same as Sabian.
  • English Word Sabaeanism Definition Same as Sabianism.
  • English Word Sabaeism Definition Alt. of Sabaism
  • English Word Sabaism Definition See Sabianism.
  • English Word Sabal Definition A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.
  • English Word Sabaoth Definition Armies; hosts.
  • English Word Sabaoth Definition Incorrectly, the Sabbath.
  • English Word Sabbat Definition In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
  • English Word Sabbatarian Definition Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.
  • English Word Sabbatarian Definition One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue.
  • English Word Sabbatarian Definition A strict observer of the Sabbath.
  • English Word Sabbatarianism Definition The tenets of Sabbatarians.