Words in english starting with S

• spartan — Noun – English ～ a resident of Sparta
• spartan — Adjective – English ～ practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
• spartan — Adjective – English ～ unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"
• spartan — Adjective – English ～ resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
• Spartan — Adjective – English ～ of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
• spartina — Noun – English ～ grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands
• Spartina pectinmata — Noun – English ～ North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
• Spartina cynosuroides — Noun – English ～ tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows
• Spartium — Noun – English ～ one species: Spanish broom
• Spartium junceum — Noun – English ～ tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California
• spasm — Noun – English ～ a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
• spasm — Noun – English ～ (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
• spasmodic laryngitis — Noun – English ～ a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
• spasmodic — Adjective – English ～ occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"
• spasmodic — Adjective – English ～ affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements"
• spasmodically — Adverb – English ～ with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner"
• spasmodically — Adverb – English ～ in spurts and fits; "I began to write intermittently and spasmodically"
• spasmolysis — Noun – English ～ the relaxation or relief of muscle spasms
• spasmolytic — Noun – English ～ a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles)
• spassky — Noun – English ～ Russian chess master who moved to Paris; world champion from 1969 to 1972 (born in 1937)

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