English Words: S

An instance of skydiving.

Someone who skydives.

A sphere or hemisphere with a texture on its inner face, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield.

Ellipsis of Isle of Skye, a large island in Scotland.

An outer space laboratory.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.

The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.

A family of United Kingdom military communications satellites.

To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.

A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.

A very tall building with a large number of floors.

Synonym of skyway.

One who walks in the sky.

At or toward the sky.

An aeroplane route.

Initialism of source language.

Initialism of Sudan Liberation Army.

A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

plural of slab

The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.

Dressed in slacks.

To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.

One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight.

Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single pair; may be referred to as a pair of slacks.)

A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

Waste material from a mine.

past participle of slay

To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).

The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates.

To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.

simple past and past participle of slam

One who, or that which, slams.

present participle and gerund of slam

A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

The act of committing slander.

Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.

Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.

A slope; an incline, inclination.

Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.

plural of slant

A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.

One who, or that which, slaps.

present participle and gerund of slap

Resembling a slap, especially of sound.

A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.

A slashing action or motion: