Words in english starting with S

• socrates — Noun – English ～ ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)
• Socratic irony — Noun – English ～ admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
• Socratic method — Noun – English ～ a method of teaching by question and answer; used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students
• socratic — Adjective – English ～ of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching; "Socratic teaching"
• sod — Noun – English ～ an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"; "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink"
• SOD — Noun – English ～ an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of superoxide into hydrogen peroxide and oxygen; "oxygen free radicals are normally removed in our bodies by the superoxide dismutase enzymes"
• sod — Noun – English ～ someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
• sod house — Noun – English ～ a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses
• sod — Noun – English ～ surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
• sod — Verb – English ～ cover with sod
• Sod's Law — Noun – English ～ humorous axiom stating that anything that can go wrong will go wrong
• sal soda — Noun – English ～ a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
• Salsola soda — Noun – English ～ bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
• Scotch and soda — Noun – English ～ a highball with Scotch malt whiskey and club soda
• soda fountain — Noun – English ～ a counter where ice cream and sodas and sundaes are prepared and served
• soda jerker — Noun – English ～ someone who works at a soda fountain
• soda bottle — Noun – English ～ a bottle for holding soft drinks
• soda niter — Noun – English ～ (NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive
• soda ash — Noun – English ～ a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
• soda can — Noun – English ～ a can for holding soft drinks

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