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English words: sodium selenite to soften the ground

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English words sodium selenite to soften the ground

  1. sodium selenite noun: A salt, Na₂SeO₃, prepared by a reaction of selenium dioxide with sodium hydroxide; it is a colorless solid, soluble in water, mainly used in the manufacture...
  2. sodium silicate noun: Chemical compounds with the formula Na₂ₓSi_(y,)O_(2y+x) or (Na₂O)ₓ·(SiO₂)_y, such as sodium metasilicate Na₂SiO₃, sodium orthosilicate Na₄SiO₄, and sodium...
  3. sodium soap noun: any soap made by the reaction of fat with sodium hydroxide
  4. sodium sorbate noun: The sodium salt of sorbic acid.
  5. sodium stearate noun: The sodium salt of stearic acid; a constituent of soap.
  6. sodium stibogluconate noun /ˌsoʊ.di.əm ˌstɪb.oʊˈɡlu.kəˌneɪt/: An injectable medicine used to treat leishmaniasis.
  7. sodium sulfate noun: The sodium salt of sulfuric acid, Na₂SO₄; it is a mild laxative (as Glauber's salt), and is used in the manufacture of paper, detergents and many other...
  8. sodium sulfide noun: The inorganic compound Na₂S.
  9. sodium sulfite noun: The sodium salt of sulfurous acid, Na₂SO₃, used as a food preservative, in photography and in many industrial applications.
  10. sodium sulphate noun: Alternative spelling of sodium sulfate.
  11. sodium sulphide noun: Alternative spelling of sodium sulfide.
  12. sodium sulphite noun: Alternative spelling of sodium sulfite.
  13. sodium tallowate noun: A tallowate used in soapmaking formed by mixing tallow with sodium products.
  14. sodium tartrate noun: The chemical compound Na₂C₄H₄O₆, used as an emulsifier and binding agent in foods such as jellies, margarine, and sausage casings.
  15. sodium tetraborate noun: Synonym of borax (“type of borate”).
  16. sodium thiopental noun: Thiopental.
  17. sodium thiosulfate noun: An inorganic compound that is typically available as the pentahydrate, Na₂S₂O₃·5H₂O. It is used in iodometry, photographic processing, gold extraction, etc.
  18. sodium thiosulphate noun: Alternative spelling of sodium thiosulfate.
  19. sodium vapor lamp noun: A street lamp in which electricity is passed through sodium vapour to emit a yellow light.
  20. sodium vapour lamp noun: Alternative spelling of sodium vapor lamp.
  21. sodiumdodecylsulfate noun: Alternative form of sodium dodecyl sulfate.
  22. sodiumlike adjective: Resembling sodium.
  23. sodiumthiosulfate noun: Alternative form of sodium thiosulphate.
  24. sodiumthiosulphate noun: Alternative form of sodium thiosulphate.
  25. sodless adjective: Without sod.
  26. SoDo proper noun: A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
  27. sodoku noun: A bacterial zoonotic disease, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Spirillum minus.
  28. Sodom noun /ˈsɒ.dəm/: A city or place full of sin and vice.
  29. Sodom and Gomorrah noun, verb: A city or place full of sin and vice.
  30. Sodom apple noun: Synonym of apple of Sodom.
  31. sodomic adjective: Of or relating to sodomy.
  32. sodomise verb /ˈsɒdəmaɪz/: To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
  33. sodomiser noun /ˈsɒdəmaɪzə/: Someone who sodomises.
  34. sodomist noun: A person who practices sodomy.
  35. sodomistic adjective: Of or relating to sodomy.
  36. sodomite noun /ˈsɒ.də.maɪt/: One who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
  37. sodomitess noun: A female sodomite.
  38. sodomitic adjective /sɒdəˈmɪtɪk/: Engaging in sodomy; characterised by or involving sodomy.
  39. sodomitical adjective: Synonym of gay: Of or related to sodomites.
  40. sodomitically adverb /sɒdəˈmɪtɪk(ə)li/: By means of sodomy.
  41. sodomitry noun: Synonym of sodomy.
  42. sodomization noun: An act of sodomy.
  43. sodomize verb: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of sodomise.
  44. sodomizer noun: American standard spelling of sodomiser.
  45. sodomy noun /ˈsɒdəmi/: Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal, oral, or manual sex.
  46. sodoponin noun: A diterpenoid found in Isodon japonicus.
  47. Sodor proper noun: The Hebrides as part of the Diocese of Sodor and Man.
  48. sodosol noun: A sandy soil lying over clay.
  49. Sodus proper noun: A town and village therein, in Wayne County, New York, United States.
  50. sody noun /ˈsoʊdi/: Pronunciation spelling of soda.
  51. soe noun /səʊ/: a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
  52. SOED noun: Initialism of sudden-onset explosive diarrhea.
  53. Soeder proper noun: A surname.
  54. Soejima proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
  55. Soemmerring's gazelle noun: A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa, Nanger soemmerringi, formerly Gazella soemmerringi.
  56. Soest proper noun: A town and rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  57. soever adverb /səʊˈɛvə/: In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc.
  58. SOF noun: Initialism of special operations force.
  59. sof pasuk noun: A trop-mark used to denote the end of a pasuk.
  60. sofa noun, verb /ˈsəʊ̯fə/: A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
  61. sofa bed noun /ˈsoʊfəbɛd/: A sofa that unfolds into a bed.
  62. sofa-bedstead noun: Synonym of Winnipeg couch.
  63. sofa king adverb /ˈsəʊfə kɪŋ/: Very, extremely.
  64. sofa set noun: A furniture set consisting of a sofa and chairs with a matching design.
  65. sofa sleeper noun: Synonym of Winnipeg couch.
  66. sofa spud noun: Synonym of couch potato.
  67. sofa surf verb: Synonym of couch surf.
  68. sofa surfer noun: Synonym of couch surfer.
  69. sofa surfing noun, verb: Synonym of couch surfing.
  70. sofa table noun: A long, narrow, waist-high table intended to be placed behind or in front of a sofa, used to hold lamps, reading materials, etc.
  71. sofabed noun: Alternative spelling of sofa-bed.
  72. sofaful noun: Enough to fill a sofa.
  73. Sofala proper noun: The chief seaport of the Mwenemutapa Kingdom, whose capital was at Mount Fura; located on the Sofala Bank in Sofala Province of Mozambique.
  74. sofalcone noun: An oral gastrointestinal medication, a synthetic derivative of sophoradin.
  75. sofaless adjective: Without a sofa.
  76. sofalike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a sofa.
  77. sofar noun: A system for determining the position of vessels lost at sea by means of explosive sounds.
  78. sofar bomb noun: A device (usually an imploding metal sphere or an explosive charge fuzed to explode at depth) which sinks in the ocean and creates a loud, low-frequency...
  79. sofar channel noun: The depth in the oceans, usually around 750 m below the surface, where the speed of sound is the lowest, causing it to transmit sound waves generated within...
  80. sofasurfer noun: Alternative form of sofa surfer.
  81. sofer noun /soʊˈfɛɹ/: A Jewish scribe who can transcribe Torah scrolls and other religious writings.
  82. soferic adjective: Relating to the soferim (Jewish scribes).
  83. SOFFA noun: Initialism of significant other, family, friend, and/or ally.
  84. Soffer proper noun: A surname.
  85. soffietta noun: A tool consisting of a metal tube, often swan necked, attached to a conical nozzle. The nozzle is used to block the mouth of a glass vessel so that it can...
  86. soffione noun: A fumarole.
  87. soffit noun /ˈsɒf.ɪt/: The visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element.
  88. soffited adjective: Having a soffit.
  89. soffrito noun: Alternative form of soffritto.
  90. soffritto noun /səˈfɹiːtəʊ/: A fried mixture of chopped onions, carrots and celery, used as the beginning point of a dish, especially in Italian cuisine; may also contain garlic,...
  91. SOFI noun: Acronym of spray-on foam insulation
  92. Sofia proper noun /ˈsoʊfiə/: A female given name, variant of Sophia.
  93. Sofian adjective, noun: Of, from, or pertaining to, Sofia
  94. sofic adjective: Whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.
  95. soficity noun: The quality of being sofic.
  96. sofiite noun: A mineral containing zinc, selenium, oxygen and chlorine, found in Costa Rica and Russia.
  97. sofkee noun: Grits (a dish of ground hominy).
  98. sofkey noun: Alternative form of sofkee.
  99. sofky noun /səfki/: A soup or stew made of hominy, cornmeal and bits of meat.
  100. SoFlo proper noun: Syllabic abbreviation of South Florida.
  101. SOFM noun: Initialism of self-organizing feature map.
  102. sofosbuvir noun: A nucleotide analog used in combination with other drugs for the treatment of hepatitis C.
  103. SOFR noun: Acronym of Secured Overnight Financing Rate.
  104. sofrito noun: A sautéed mixture of chopped onions, garlic, and tomato and/or (chili) peppers, and sometimes carrots, celery, and/or herbs, used as the beginning point of...
  105. sofritto noun: Alternative form of soffritto.
  106. soft adjective, adverb, interjection, noun, suffix /sɒft/: Easily giving way under pressure.
  107. soft 404 noun: A 404 page (the result of trying to follow a broken link within a website) which reports a 200 OK HTTP response code rather than 404 Not Found, falsely...
  108. soft a noun: The schwa at the end of the African-American Vernacular English word nigga, as contrasted with the hard r at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a...
  109. soft as a baby's bottom adjective: Extremely soft (not rough).
  110. soft as silk adjective: very soft, soft as a baby's bottom
  111. soft atheism noun: The lack of belief in deities, without actually asserting that there are none.
  112. soft atheist noun: An atheist who does not explicitly assert that deities do not exist.
  113. soft begging noun: The practice of indirectly soliciting money or other material benefits from members of an online community, often with sad stories of personal or family...
  114. soft bigotry of low expectations noun: The practice of expecting less from members of a disadvantaged group and thus implicitly encouraging those people not to reach their full potential.
  115. soft-billed adjective: Alternative form of softbilled.
  116. soft-block noun, verb: To block (a user) on social media and then immediately unblock them, so that the user will (perhaps unknowingly) no longer follow or engage with the...
  117. soft boiled adjective: cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny
  118. soft bomb noun: Synonym of graphite bomb.
  119. soft boxing noun: A form of martial art in which the goal is throwing one's opponent off balance by means of pushes and pulls, as opposed to incapacitating one's opponent out...
  120. soft boy noun: Alternative form of softboy.
  121. soft break noun: A breakaway that is allowed to go from the peloton in a stage race because it poses no strategic threat to any of the main contenders in the general...
  122. soft-brick verb: To cause (an electronic device) to fail to operate while still showing signs of life, for example a computer switching on but failing to boot.
  123. soft butch noun: A lesbian who exhibits some butch traits (short hair, men's clothing, etc.) without wholly fitting the masculine butch stereotype.
  124. soft c noun /sɒft siː/: In many languages, a letter "c" which is not pronounced as a velar stop (/k/, like English "k") but as a sibilant (/s/, like English "s") or an affricative...
  125. soft-cancel verb: To criticize or sideline (a person) for perceived unacceptable behavior, without fully ostracizing or banning them.
  126. soft canon noun: Secondary material, such as official novels based on a television series, that may or may not be regarded as canon.
  127. soft capping noun: The topping of historic walls with turf and soil to reduce frost and water damage.
  128. soft chancre noun: chancroid (sexually transmitted disease)
  129. soft cheese noun: A type of rennet cheese that is not firm owing to the curds not having been pressed or comminuted to a large degree, so that much whey or liquid is left,...
  130. soft-close adjective: Of a drawer, door, etc., that has a mechanism which slows down movement when closing in order to avoid slamming.
  131. soft coal noun: Bituminous coal, as distinguished from hard coal (anthracite).
  132. Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier noun: A purebred terrier originating from Ireland.
  133. soft copy noun: A digital copy of a document, rather than a copy printed on paper.
  134. soft coral noun: Any of the order Alcyonacea of corals that do not produce calcium carbonate skeletons.
  135. soft-core adjective: Alternative form of softcore.
  136. soft corner noun: Synonym of soft spot.
  137. soft count noun: The regulated, secure process in a casino of collecting, counting, and recording paper currency from slot machine dropboxes and table game dropboxes.
  138. soft coup noun: The legal removal of a national leader, amounting to a coup, but carried out without military force.
  139. soft delete verb: To remove access to (a resource), without deleting the resource itself.
  140. soft deletion noun: An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.
  141. soft determinism noun: Synonym of compatibilism.
  142. soft determinist adjective, noun: Synonym of compatibilist.
  143. soft dollars noun: A rebate or commission paid with goods or services, rather than cash.
  144. soft-dotted adjective: Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.
  145. soft drink noun: Any non-alcoholic drink that is carbonated, and usually also sweet.
  146. soft-drinkless adjective: Without soft drinks.
  147. soft drug noun: A drug that is less harmful than a hard drug.
  148. soft elm noun: Any of species Ulmus rubra of elm trees, native to eastern North America (from southeast North Dakota, east to Maine and southern Quebec, south to...
  149. soft error noun: A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.
  150. soft flimsy noun /sɒft ˈflɪmzi/: A counterfeit banknote.
  151. soft float adjective, noun: A software implementation of a floating-point number.
  152. soft focus noun: The blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.
  153. soft fork noun: A rule change of a blockchain that does not require an upgrade of the whole network.
  154. soft fox sedge noun: Carex conjuncta, native to north central and northeastern United States.
  155. soft fruit noun: fruit that grows on bushes, such as berries, strawberries and currants, as contrasted with top fruit
  156. soft funding noun: Those forms of funding, such as donations and subsidies, that impose no direct requirement for return on investment.
  157. soft g noun: The g sound pronounced /dʒ/ as in gem, giraffe and generation (or sometimes or /ʒ/ as in genre).
  158. soft gamma repeater noun: An source of large gamma-ray bursts and X-rays at fluctuating intervals, thought to be a type of magnetar or neutron star.
  159. soft girl noun: A girl who adopts a look or aesthetic involving a wholesome and feminine appearance in subdued pastel colours, as well as (often) watching anime and...
  160. soft goods noun: Alternative form of softgoods.
  161. soft-grain adjective: Alternative form of softgrain.
  162. soft grunge noun: An aesthetic style influenced by grunge and other 1990s clothing styles, and associated with pop punk, emo, and alternative rock music.
  163. soft hand noun: A hand of cards that includes an ace being counted as 11.
  164. soft handed adjective: Gentle; permissive; lenient; slow to enforce discipline.
  165. soft hands noun: plural of soft hand
  166. soft-hearted adjective: Alternative spelling of softhearted.
  167. soft-heartedly adverb: Alternative form of softheartedly.
  168. soft-heartedness noun: Alternative form of softheartedness.
  169. soft hyphen noun: A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is later...
  170. soft in the head adjective: Synonym of softheaded.
  171. soft inquiry noun: A record of an entity's review of a consumer's credit report that is initiated either by the consumer themsleves or an existing creditor, that is not...
  172. soft jade noun: A nephrite mineral gemstone.
  173. soft key adjective, noun: A button, located along a display device, which performs whatever function is shown near it on the display.
  174. soft kill noun: The neutralization of an incoming munition by avoiding it rather than destroying it.
  175. soft land verb: Alternative form of soft-land.
  176. soft landing noun, verb: A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle.
  177. soft launch noun, verb: The launch of a missile in such a way that the rocket motor ignites outside of the launch tube, ejecting the missile non-explosively.
  178. soft-like adverb: Softly.
  179. soft-liner noun: A person who holds a moderate position and may be willing to compromise, as opposed to a hard-liner.
  180. soft lithography noun: A family of techniques for fabricating or replicating structures, usually on the micrometer to nanometer scale, using elastomeric stamps, molds, and...
  181. soft loan noun: A loan with a below-market interest rate and sometimes other concessions to the borrower.
  182. soft-long adjective: Denoting a long vowel in Middle Dutch that was a short vowel in Old Dutch, and was later lengthened due to being in a stressed open syllable.
  183. soft luxury noun: A category of consumer luxury goods including clothing, cosmetics, and accessories.
  184. soft maple noun: A red maple, Acer rubrum
  185. soft market noun: An economic environment in which insurers lower their prices.
  186. soft matte noun: A technique where the full frame is filled, and the projectionist is relied upon to matte out the top and bottom of the frame in the theatrical projector.
  187. soft media noun: Any type of media organization that deals primarily with commentary, entertainment, arts and lifestyle.
  188. soft-minded adjective: Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated.
  189. soft-mindedly adverb: In a soft-minded manner.
  190. soft-mindedness noun: the state or quality of being soft-minded.
  191. soft mode noun: A collective excitation whose frequency decreases anomalously as the transition point is reached.
  192. soft money noun: A currency not fully backed by specie.
  193. soft mutation noun: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances; lenition.
  194. soft navigation noun: A user-initiated client-side change of view in a single-page application or similar context.
  195. soft news noun: Broadcast news mainly intended to entertain rather than to inform.
  196. soft nose adjective, noun: Alternative form of softnose.
  197. soft-nosed adjective: Synonym of softnose.
  198. soft opening noun: An unannounced or lightly announced business opening, instead of or prior to a grand opening.
  199. soft ordnance noun: Napalm or cluster bombs (for use against soft targets), as opposed to high explosives (for hardened targets).
  200. soft palate noun: The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.
  201. soft paraffin noun: Petroleum jelly.
  202. soft paste adjective: Alternative form of softpaste.
  203. soft paywall noun: A paywall that allows limited free access, such as by allowing each user to read a certain number of articles per month without paying.
  204. soft pedal noun, verb /ˌsɒf(t)ˈpɛdl̩/: To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
  205. soft photon noun: A photon, whose energy is too small to be detected, that is one of a cloud associated with a charged particle.
  206. soft pine noun: Any member of the pine subgenus Pinus subg. Strobus.
  207. soft ping noun: A ping (mention) which does not result in a notification sent to the intended recipient.
  208. soft play noun: Alternative form of softplay.
  209. soft point adjective, noun: Of a bullet: having an exposed lead point, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more damage.
  210. soft porn noun: Alternative form of softcore pornography.
  211. soft power noun: Political influence that is extended by means of diplomacy, media, international assistance, cultural exchanges, etc., rather than by such "hard" means as...
  212. soft pull noun: Synonym of soft inquiry
  213. soft real-time adjective: Being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.
  214. soft reboot noun: Synonym of warm boot.
  215. soft redirect noun: An indication to a user that what they requested may be found elsewhere.
  216. soft reference noun: A weak reference that is garbage-collected less aggressively.
  217. soft release noun: Synonym of soft launch.
  218. soft reset noun, verb: A process of restarting an electronic device without diminishing its power, typically by using the device's built-in restart function.
  219. soft return noun: The type of newline that represents either a natural line break resulting from word wrap, or one specifically inserted inside a paragraph (not between...
  220. soft robot noun: A robot that is physically compliant and deformable and typically employs biomimicry
  221. soft robotics noun: The design, manufacture and use of soft robots
  222. soft rock noun: A comparatively unaggressive, melodic rock music genre in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat; a reaction against hard rock.
  223. soft roe noun: milt, fish semen
  224. soft room noun: A room set up in a police station with amenities that make it easier to talk with children, trauma victims, or other vulnerable populations.
  225. soft rot noun: A bacterial disease of potatoes.
  226. soft rush noun: A plant of the species Juncus effusus, nearly worldwide in distribution, native over much of its current range, excluding Australia, Madagascar, and many...
  227. soft sawder noun, verb: Cajoling or flattery.
  228. soft scale noun: Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.
  229. soft science noun: A field of scientific inquiry that is limited by the nature of its subject matter in its ability to establish strictly measurable criteria.
  230. soft science fiction noun: A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the nature of its speculative societies or that employs pseudoscience.
  231. soft sculpture noun: A kind of three-dimensional art form incorporating supple and non-rigid materials that may be stuffed, sewn, glued, woven, etc.
  232. soft-sectored adjective: Of a storage medium: divided up by soft sectoring.
  233. soft sectoring noun: The recording of layout data onto a magnetic or optical recording medium in order to designate the sector locations, as opposed to using physical marks or...
  234. soft sell noun: A sales technique which is quietly persuasive and subtle, seeking to convince the buyer without being forceful.
  235. soft serve noun: A frozen dessert or snack, similar to or considered as ice cream but softer, as a result of air being introduced during freezing.
  236. soft served adjective: Of a frozen dessert or snack, soft, as a result of air being introduced during freezing.
  237. soft-shell adjective, noun: Alternative form of softshell.
  238. soft-shell crab noun: A crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and whose new exoskeleton has not yet hardened, rendering the entire animal soft and edible.
  239. soft-shell turtle noun: Any turtle of the family Trionychidae, such turtles having a carapace that has no scutes and is leathery and pliable at the sides.
  240. soft-shelled crab noun: Synonym of soft-shell crab
  241. soft-shelled turtle noun: Alternative form of soft-shell turtle.
  242. soft shoe adjective, noun, verb: A kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville.
  243. soft shoulder noun: A road shoulder made of gravel rather than asphalt or concrete.
  244. soft sign noun /ˌsɒftˈsaɪn/: The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to...
  245. soft signal noun: A decision of the onfield umpire, formerly relayed to the third umpire (until mid-2023) to assist in cases where the video footage was unclear.
  246. soft skill noun: A personal skill that is usually interpersonal, nonspecialized, and difficult to quantify, such as leadership or responsibility.
  247. soft snap noun: Something that can be successfully accomplished with very little effort.
  248. soft soap noun, verb: Persuasion by means of flattery or pleasing words.
  249. soft-spoken adjective /ˈsɒftˌspəʊkən/: Having a pleasant, gentle, mild manner of speech; speaking gently or quietly.
  250. soft spot noun /sɒft spɒt/: A sentimental fondness or affection.
  251. soft steel noun: Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.
  252. soft sub noun, verb: Alternative form of softsub.
  253. soft surfboard noun: a foamie
  254. soft swap noun: a swinging practice in which two couples swap partners but without full sexual intercourse.
  255. soft tack noun: Synonym of soft tommy (“bread”).
  256. soft target noun: An undefended civilian target, vulnerable to attack by an army, military group or terrorists.
  257. soft tennis noun: A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.
  258. soft thing noun: Synonym of soft snap.
  259. soft tick noun: Any tick in the family Argasidae, differing from the so-called hard ticks in several respects, in particular in that they lack a defensive hard shield (or...
  260. soft tissue noun: All the tissues of the body except the calcified ones such as bones and teeth. (Cartilage of joints is often excluded from the definition as well).
  261. soft tommy noun: Soft bread, as opposed to hardtack or sea biscuit.
  262. soft top noun: The foldable roof of a convertible or sports car which is made of fabric.
  263. soft tortoise noun: Any of the soft-shelled turtles of the family Trionychidae.
  264. soft touch noun: A person or group that is sympathetic, accommodating, easily overcome, or easily persuaded, especially one that loans or readily gives money to another.
  265. soft toy noun: A toy made of a soft material, usually stuffed with cotton, straw, beans, or other materials, and typically intended as a plaything for children.
  266. soft underbelly noun: A weak spot; a soft spot.
  267. soft-verge noun: An unsealed strip along the edge of a sealed road.
  268. soft vore noun: A subgenre of vorarephilia in which a character is eaten alive and whole, without chewing. May or may not result in fatal digestion.
  269. soft water noun: Water with a low concentration of dissolved minerals, especially calcium, making it easier to lather with soap.
  270. soft wheat noun: Varieties of wheat with soft grains of higher starch and lower protein content, used in the production of biscuit, cake and domestic flours.
  271. soft X-ray noun: The lowest energy, lowest frequency, longest wavelength end of the X-ray EM band, overlapping with EUV (extreme ultraviolet).
  272. softa noun: A religious student, especially in Turkey
  273. Softail noun: A bicycle or motorcycle featuring a hidden rear suspension system with springs or shock absorbers.
  274. softback noun: A softcover or paperback book.
  275. softbacked adjective: Having a flexible binding of card or similar; softback.
  276. softball noun: A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
  277. softballer noun: A softball player.
  278. softbill noun: Any of various birds (of no particular taxonomic commonality) that feed on relatively "soft" foods, such as leaves and insects.
  279. softbilled adjective: Of birds, preferring to feed on relatively soft foods, such as insects or fruits.
  280. softblock noun, verb: Alternative form of soft-block.
  281. softboard noun: Low-density fibreboard.
  282. softboiled adjective: Alternative spelling of soft-boiled.
  283. softbot noun: A computer program that acts on behalf of a user or another program.
  284. softbottom noun: A soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.
  285. softbound adjective: With a cover of flexible paper rather than a rigid cardboard cover.
  286. softbox noun: A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.
  287. softcoat noun: A coating that is vulnerable to scratches or other types of damage.
  288. softcode verb: To construct a program in a way which ensures that certain values and methods of operation are adjustable at run time.
  289. softcopy noun: Alternative form of soft copy.
  290. softcore adjective, noun: Pornography that does not contain depictions of explicit sexual penetration.
  291. softcore pornography noun: A form of pornography where the sexual acts are relatively unexplicit.
  292. softcover adjective, noun: Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.
  293. softcovered adjective: Having the sort of binding characteristic of a softcover book.
  294. softdelete verb: Alternative form of soft-delete
  295. softdrink noun: Alternative form of soft drink.
  296. soften verb /ˈsɒfən/: To make something soft or softer.
  297. soften someone's cough verb: To completely negate or undermine someone's argument or position on a topic.
  298. soften the blow verb: To reduce the negative impact of something.
  299. soften the ground verb: To prepare or create favorable conditions (for something), especially with the intent of improving public acceptance of the forthcoming occurrence.

Part 127 · Part 129 · English words: S

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.