Nouns starting with S

• 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
• 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)
• 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
• spoonleaf yucca — Noun – English ～ yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
• Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub — Noun – English ～ sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193)
• Simon the Zealot — Noun – English ～ one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
• Simon Zelotes — Noun – English ～ one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
• Sansevieria zeylanica — Noun – English ～ plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green
• sign of the zodiac — Noun – English ～ (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
• Seriola zonata — Noun – English ～ fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters
• safety zone — Noun – English ～ a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians
• South Temperate Zone — Noun – English ～ Temperate Zone between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn

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