Words in english starting with S

• sabbatical year — Noun – English ～ a sabbatical leave lasting one year
• solar year — Noun – English ～ the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes
• sidereal year — Noun – English ～ the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars
• seventeen-year locust — Noun – English ～ North American cicada; appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take 13 to 17 years to mature
• second-year — Adjective – English ～ used of the second year in United States high school or college; "the sophomore class"; "his sophomore year"
• Seven Years' War — Noun – English ～ a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (1756-1763); Britain and Prussia got the better of it
• Sir Yehudi Menuhin — Noun – English ～ British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999)
• southern yellow pine — Noun – English ～ large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree
• shortleaf yellow pine — Noun – English ～ large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature
• sulfur-yellow — Adjective – English ～ of something having the yellow color of sulfur
• sulphur-yellow — Adjective – English ～ of something having the yellow color of sulfur
• South-African yellowwood — Noun – English ～ erect or shrubby tree of Africa having ridged dark grey bark and rigid glossy medium to long leaves
• stinking yew — Noun – English ～ rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
• Sun Yixian — Noun – English ～ Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925)
• South Yorkshire — Noun – English ～ a metropolitan county in northern England
• siege of Yorktown — Noun – English ～ in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution
• Sir James Young Simpson — Noun – English ～ Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
• Strauss the Younger — Noun – English ～ Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)
• sincerely yours — Adverb – English ～ written formula for ending a letter
• second battle of Ypres — Noun – English ～ battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient

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