sacrarium
In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)
The area surrounding the altar of a Christian church; the sanctuary or piscina. Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration.
The complex sacrum of any bird.

sacrariums
plural of sacrarium

sacrary
A sacred building, or store for sacred objects; a shrine.

sacrificati
In the early Christian church, those who sacrificed to idols in persecution, but returned as penitents afterwards.

sacrodynia
Pain in the sacral region; sacralgia.

saden
The custodian of a shrine.

sadens
plural of saden

safehold
A safe place; a refuge or stronghold.

safeholds
plural of safehold

saffronisation
Alternative form of saffronization.

saffronization
The politics of right-wing Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) that seek to make the Indian state adopt policies that recall and glorify Hindu cultural history and heritage of India at the expense of other religious traditions.

sagartiid
Any sea anemone in the family Sagartiidae.

sagartiids
plural of sagartiid

saic
A kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava

saick
Obsolete form of saic.

saicks
plural of saick

saics
plural of saic

sailpunk
A subgenre of speculative fiction, focusing on life at sea during the eras of exploration and piracy.

saintlihood
The quality, state, or condition of being saintly; saintliness

sakkoi
plural of sakkos

sakkos
A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).

sakkoses
plural of sakkos

saladero
A room or building for salting meat.

saladeros
plural of saladero

salband
The border of an igneous mass, usually characterized by a finer grain or glassy texture which is produced by the chilling of the molten rock by the cold country rock.

salbands
plural of salband

saleroom
A room in which items for sale are displayed; a showroom
A room in which items are auctioned

salerooms
plural of saleroom

salespoint
A location where things are sold; a retail outlet.

salespoints
plural of salespoint

salesroom
The room where sales are made

salesrooms
plural of salesroom

salitral
A place where saltpetre occurs.

salitrals
plural of salitral

salle
A fencing school.

salsatheque
A discotheque that only plays salsa music.

saltchuck
Any body of saltwater, especially the ocean.

saltchucks
plural of saltchuck

saltierra
A saline deposit in the inland lakes of Mexico.

saltierras
plural of saltierra

salumeria
a shop specializing in salami and the like: a delicatessen

salumerias
plural of salumeria

salumerie
plural of salumeria

salutatoria
plural of salutatorium

salutatorium
A porch or room in a monastery or church serving as a meeting or almsgiving place for monks or priests and the laity.

salvatories
plural of salvatory

salvatory
A place where things are preserved; a repository.

samiel
A hot desert wind, simoom.

samiels
plural of samiel

samoom
Archaic form of simoom.

samooms
plural of samoom

sampietrini
plural of sampietrino

sampietrino
A roughly 12cm square-topped, dark, fine-grained, paving stone with a tapered base, endemic to Rome (first used in the 17th century to pave St. Peter’s Square—whence it received its name—later becoming iconic throughout Rome and further afield in Italy), which was traditionally (albeit not exclusively) quarried from the mafic, alkaline, ultrapotassic leucitite Pleistocene-age lavas erupted by the Alban Hills volcano just outside of the city, although modern replacement stones are often made of similar, yet more readily-available, cheaper basalt, imported from China.
One of the highly-skilled, hereditary craftsmen exclusively entrusted with the upkeep of St. Peter's Basilica since 1600 CE, as well as the lighting and decoration of its exterior during the annual Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

sandalpunk
A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Iron Age, especially the Roman Empire.

sandar
Alternative form of sandur.

sandbeach
a beach consisting of mainly sand

sandbeaches
plural of sandbeach

sandbelt
A dunal ridge.
An area developed from sand dunes; the region in Victoria is a well-known example.

sandbelts
plural of sandbelt

sandflat
An extended, flat area of sand, typically near a shore, with little or no vegetation.

sandflats
plural of sandflat

sandhill
A dune or sandpile.
A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis).

sandlot
A vacant lot where children play.

sandlots
plural of sandlot

sandpit
A place or pit from which sand is excavated.
A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand.
A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.

sandpits
plural of sandpit

sandplain
An area whose surface consists of sand deposited from elsewhere by the wind or sea.

sandplains
plural of sandplain

sandr
Alternative form of sandur.

sandrs
plural of sandr

sandung
A wooden house-shaped structure made by some Bornean peoples as an ossuary.

sandur
A plain created by the outwash of glacial meltwater.

sandurs
plural of sandur

sangaku
A geometrical problem or theorem on a wooden tablet, placed as an offering at a Japanese shrine.

sanhedrim
Alternative spelling of Sanhedrin.

sanpietrini
plural of sanpietrino

sanpietrino
Alternative form of sampietrino.

sansad
A parliament, an assembly.

sansads
plural of sansad

sapec
Alternative form of sapek (“Vietnamese coin”).

sapeca
Alternative form of sapek (“Vietnamese coin”).

sapecas
plural of sapeca

sapecs
plural of sapec

sapek
A cast round coin with a square hole, an official currency of Vietnam from the Đinh dynasty in 970 until the Nguyễn dynasty in 1945.

sapeks
plural of sapek

sapeque
Alternative form of sapek (“Vietnamese coin”).

sapeques
plural of sapeque

sarpanch
The elected head of a panchayat (village government) in Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan.

sarpanches
plural of sarpanch

sart
An assart, or clearing; land cleared for agriculture.

sartage
The clearing of woodland for agricultural purposes.

sarts
plural of sart

sarugaku
A form of Japanese theater popular during the 11th to 14th centuries.

satanophanies
plural of satanophany

satanophany
An incarnation of Satan; a being possessed by a demon, or the state of being thus possessed.

satoyama
A border zone or area between mountain foothills and arable flat land in Japan.

satoyamas
plural of satoyama

satrap
A governor of a Persian province.
A subordinate ruler.

satrapies
plural of satrapy

satraps
plural of satrap

satrapy
The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of West Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sasanian Empire and Hellenistic empires).

satrapys
plural of satrapy

sauna
A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
The act of using a sauna.
A public sauna.
In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
A very hot place or room.

saunaed
simple past and past participle of sauna

saunas
plural of sauna

savagedom
A savage state or condition; savagery.
Savages.

savannisation
Alternative form of savannization.

savannization
Conversion to savanna (typically of forest as a result of fire).

savannizations
plural of savannization

savestate
A file that contains an emulator's or virtualizer's state at the moment it was saved to disk. The file contains the contents of the memory, registers and other pertinent data that allows the user to resume the application from the moment the file was created.

savestates
plural of savestate

savssat
The situation where animals become trapped in sea ice.

savssats
plural of savssat

saxum
a boulder, in geographic names on asteroids