Words starting with S

• surface-treatment – not validated
• shock treatment — Noun – English ～ treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions
• summary treatment — Noun – English ～ a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request"
• silent treatment — Noun – English ～ an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know
• sewage-treatment – not validated
• security-treaty – not validated
• sapodilla tree — Noun – English ～ large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras
• satsuma tree — Noun – English ～ a variety of mandarin orange
• sassafras tree — Noun – English ～ yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America
• satinwood tree — Noun – English ～ East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood
• service tree — Noun – English ～ any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit
• service tree — Noun – English ～ medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit
• siris tree — Noun – English ～ large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind
• screw tree — Noun – English ～ a tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres
• sandarac tree — Noun – English ～ large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes
• sandalwood tree — Noun – English ～ parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests
• salt tree — Noun – English ～ spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms
• Santa Maria tree — Noun – English ～ West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice
• shittah tree — Noun – English ～ source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia
• shingle tree — Noun – English ～ East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes

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