- rupture: To separate the parts of by violence.
- rustic: Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
- ruth: Sorrow for another's misery.
- sacrifice: To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
- sacrificial: Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
- sacrilege: The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
- sacrilegious: Impious.
- safeguard: To protect.
- sagacious: Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
- salacious: Having strong sexual desires.
- salience: The condition of standing out distinctly.
- salient: Standing out prominently.
- saline: Constituting or consisting of salt.
- salutary: Beneficial.
- salutation: Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
- salutatory: The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
- salvage: Any act of saving property.
- salvo: A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
- sanctimonious: Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
- sanction: To approve authoritatively.
- sanctity: Holiness.
- sanguinary: Bloody.
- sanguine: Having the color of blood.
- sanguineous: Consisting of blood.
- sapid: Affecting the sense of taste.
- sapience: Deep wisdom or knowledge.
- sapient: Possessing wisdom.
- sapiential: Possessing wisdom.
- saponaceous: Having the nature or quality of soap.
- sarcasm: Cutting and reproachful language.
- sarcophagus: A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
- sardonic: Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
- satiate: To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
- satire: The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
- satiric: Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
- satirize: To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
- satyr: A very lascivious person.
- savage: A wild and uncivilized human being.
- savor: To perceive by taste or smell.
- scabbard: The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
- scarcity: Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
- scholarly: Characteristic of an erudite person.
- scholastic: Pertaining to education or schools.
- scintilla: The faintest ray.
- scintillate: To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
- scope: A range of action or view.
- scoundrel: A man without principle.
- scribble: Hasty, careless writing.
- scribe: One who writes or is skilled in writing.
- script: Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.