Words in english starting with S

• skyward — Adverb – English ～ toward the sky; "look skywards!"
• skywards — Adverb – English ～ toward the sky; "look skywards!"
• skyway — Noun – English ～ a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
• skywriting — Noun – English ～ writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane
• sl — Noun – English ～ a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade; "Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths"
• slab — Noun – English ～ block consisting of a thick piece of something
• slabber — Verb – English ～ let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"
• slack — Noun – English ～ a stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless"
• slack — Noun – English ～ a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality"
• slack — Noun – English ～ the quality of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope"
• slack — Noun – English ～ a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
• slack — Noun – English ～ dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
• slack — Noun – English ～ a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took up the slack"
• slack — Verb – English ～ make less active or intense
• slack — Verb – English ～ become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"
• slack — Verb – English ～ become slow or slower; "Production slowed"
• slack — Verb – English ～ release tension on; "slack the rope"
• slack — Verb – English ～ make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now"
• slack — Verb – English ～ cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime"
• slack off — Verb – English ～ become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"

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