socius
Any of the autonomous tribes and city states of the Italian Peninsula in permanent military alliance with the Roman Republic until the Social War of 91–88 BC.
An associate; a fellow of an academy, etc.
According to Gilles Deleuze, a social body that takes credit for production.

socome
A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.

soddie
A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada.

soilscape
The soil content of a landscape

soilscapes
plural of soilscape

soke
A soc (a medieval right to hold a court or to receive fines).
A district under a particular jurisdiction.

sokes
plural of soke

soldan
The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt.
A sultan.

soldanrie
sultanate.

soldanries
plural of soldanrie

soldans
plural of soldan

solfatara
An area of volcanic activity that gives off sulfurous steam.

solfataras
plural of solfatara

solfatare
plural of solfatara

solifluction
Soil creep caused by waterlogged soil slowly moving downhill on top of an impermeable layer.

solifluctions
plural of solifluction

solifluxion
Alternative form of solifluction.

solifluxions
plural of solifluxion

solitude
Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
A lonely or deserted place.

solongoi
The mountain weasel.

soloth
A soil type hypothesized to be a transformation of solodic soil, where the sodium is replaced by hydrogen, resulting in friable topsoil and dark, hard, alkaline subsoil.

soloths
plural of soloth

songland
A land of song or poetry.

sonship
The position or state of being a son.

sooq
Alternative spelling of souq.

sooqs
plural of sooq

sophiology
A controversial school of thought in Russian Orthodoxy, holding that divine wisdom is to be identified with God's essence, and that this divine wisdom is in some way expressed in the world as 'creaturely' wisdom.

sophism
The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
An intentional fallacy.
Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
Wisdom and knowledge.

sophisms
plural of sophism

sophomoreitis
Alternative spelling of sophomoritis.

sophomoritis
A tendency of sophomores in high school or college to slack off and lose motivation as if they were seniors with senioritis.

soreness
The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.

sorenesses
plural of soreness

sori
plural of sorus

soroche
altitude sickness, mountain sickness

sorochi
Alternative form of soroche.

sorocho
Alternative form of soroche.

sotol
Any of several species of North American desert plants of the genus Dasylirion, of the asparagus family.
A distilled spirit made from the sap of some of these plants, especially Dasylirion wheeleri.

sotols
plural of sotol

souk
Alternative spelling of souq.

soukous
A genre of African popular music, resembling rumba, that originated in the Congo region in the 1930s.

souks
plural of souk

soundbar
A bar containing multiple speakers that can be mounted under or alongside a television, etc. instead of having separate speakers positioned around the room.

soundbars
plural of soundbar

soupfin
The school shark.

soupfins
plural of soupfin

souq
A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods.

souqs
plural of souq

souterrain
An underground chamber or passage sometimes used as a store, especially one associated with Iron Age settlements.

souterrains
plural of souterrain

southernism
Anything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United States.
A word or phrase (a dialectism) from Southern American English.

southernisms
plural of southernism

souverainism
Alternative form of sovereignism.

sovereignism
A doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving the political independence of a nation, region or group, from external or higher-level entities (e.g. federalism or supranational unions like the UN) or from internal (e.g. ethnic or sexual minority) groups it considers subversive.
The defence of the sovereignty of individual European countries in the face of broader European or European Union integration.

sovereigntism
Alternative form of sovereignism.

sovkhose
Alternative form of sovkhoz.

sovkhoses
plural of sovkhose

sovkhoz
A large, state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.

sovkhozes
plural of sovkhoz

sovkhozy
plural of sovkhoz

sowback
A low ridge of sand

spacearium
Alternative letter-case form of Spacearium.

spaceforce
A military unit involved with outer space and spaceflight.

spaceforces
plural of spaceforce

spacelab
A laboratory in outer space.

spacelabs
plural of spacelab

spaghetteries
plural of spaghettery

spaghettery
A restaurant that sells spaghetti.

spasmology
An area of neurology that deals with spasticity and its management.

spathroom
A bathroom that has been designed to be very clean, comfortable and relaxing, like a spa.

speakeasies
plural of speakeasy

speakeasy
An illegal saloon or tavern, especially one operated during the American Prohibition period in the 1920s.

speakeasys
plural of speakeasy

speakership
The position or tenure of the speaker of a legislative body.

speakhouse
A parlor for conversation within a monastery or convent.

speakhouses
plural of speakhouse

specchia
A megalithic pile of stones found in the Salento region of Italy.

specchie
plural of specchia

specificness
Specificity, the state of being specific

specificnesses
plural of specificness

spectatories
plural of spectatory

spectatory
A place for spectators to watch an event.

spellout
A stage in producing an utterance that comes between syntax and the interface with the phonological form, according to Chomsky's minimalist program.

spellouts
plural of spellout

speoi
plural of speos

speos
A tomb or temple carved from the solid rock

spettle
Spittle.

sphincterotomies
plural of sphincterotomy

sphincterotomy
The surgical procedure for treating fissures in the mucosa of the anal canal, or sphincter.

spicehouse
A warehouse where spices are stored.

spicehouses
plural of spicehouse

spiedie
A submarine sandwich local to Greater Binghamton in the Southern Tier of New York State, containing grilled marinated cubes of meat.

spiedies
plural of spiedie

spillway
A path designed to take away overflow safely.

spillways
plural of spillway

spindom
The realm, territory, or sphere of spinning.
The realm, territory, or sphere of political spin.

spinneries
plural of spinnery

spinnery
A mill or factory where spinning takes place.

spintronics
The storage and transfer of information using the spin state of electrons as well as their charge.

spirket
A space forward and aft between floor-timbers.

spirkets
plural of spirket

spissitude
Density, thickness; the state or quality of being inspissated or thickened.
Spiritual substance or density, viewed as the fourth dimension of an object.

spissitudes
plural of spissitude

spital
A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.

spitalhouse
A hospital.

spitalhouses
plural of spitalhouse

spitals
plural of spital

spittal
lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital
a house or place of refuge for the sick, especially one for patients with contagious diseases
a shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks

spittals
plural of spittal

spittle
Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.
Something frothy and white that resembles spit.
Spit-up or drool of an infant.

spittled
simple past and past participle of spittle

spittles
plural of spittle

spitzkop
A rocky, sharp-pointed hill.

spitzkops
plural of spitzkop

spomenik
A monument erected in former Yugoslavia to commemorate World War II.