Words in english starting with S

• squat — Verb – English ～ sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
• squat — Verb – English ～ be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low"
• squat — Verb – English ～ occupy (a dwelling) illegally
• squat — Adjective – English ～ having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
• squat — Adjective – English ～ short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
• Squatina — Noun – English ～ type genus of the Squatinidae: angel sharks
• Squatina squatina — Noun – English ～ sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do
• Squatinidae — Noun – English ～ bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks
• squatness — Noun – English ～ the property of being short and broad
• squatter — Noun – English ～ someone who settles on land without right or title
• squatter — Noun – English ～ someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
• squattiness — Noun – English ～ a short and stout physique
• squatting — Noun – English ～ the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
• squatting — Noun – English ～ exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
• squatty — Adjective – English ～ short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
• squaw grass — Noun – English ～ plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers
• squaw man — Noun – English ～ derogatory term for a white man married to a North American Indian woman
• squaw huckleberry — Noun – English ～ small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer
• squaw corn — Noun – English ～ corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch
• squaw — Noun – English ～ derogatory terms for an American Indian woman

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