Words starting with S

• slender wild oat — Noun – English ～ oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia
• sow one's wild oats — Verb – English ～ live promiscuously and self-indulgently
• semi-wild — Adjective – English ～ partially wild
• Samuel Wilder — Noun – English ～ United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)
• Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson — Noun – English ～ English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921)
• self-will — Noun – English ～ the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
• self-will — Noun – English ～ resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
• self-willed — Adjective – English ～ habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
• strong-willed — Adjective – English ～ having a determined will
• Stephen William Hawking — Noun – English ～ English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
• sweet William — Noun – English ～ Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers
• Sir William Huggins — Noun – English ～ English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
• Sir Charles William Siemens — Noun – English ～ engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)
• Sir William Crookes — Noun – English ～ English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)
• Sir William Wallace — Noun – English ～ Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)
• Sir John Frederick William Herschel — Noun – English ～ English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
• Sir William Rowan Hamilton — Noun – English ～ Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
• Sir William Walton — Noun – English ～ English composer (1902-1983)
• Sir Frederick William Herschel — Noun – English ～ English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
• Sir William Gerald Golding — Noun – English ～ English novelist (1911-1993)

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