surgicenter
A medical facility where surgical procedures not requiring an overnight hospital stay are performed.

surgicenters
plural of surgicenter

surgicentre
Alternative form of surgicenter.

surgicentres
plural of surgicentre

surrogateship
The position or office of a surrogate.
surrogacy

surroundings
plural of surrounding

sursize
A penalty in feudal times for non-payment of castle-guard rent on the appointed day.

susegad
A relaxed, carefree attitude associated with the Indian state of Goa.

suspiral
A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct, particularly one in a building.
A spring of water passing underground toward a cistern or conduit.

suspirals
plural of suspiral

suyu
Any of the four quarters of the Inca Empire.

suyus
plural of suyu

suzerain
A dominant nation or state that has control over the international affairs of a subservient state which otherwise has domestic autonomy.
A feudal landowner to whom vassals were forced to pledge allegiance.

suzeraine
Alternative form of suzerain.

suzeraines
plural of suzeraine

suzerains
plural of suzerain

svgs
Abbreviation of savings.

swainmote
A court held before the verderers of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, three times a year, the swains or freeholders of the forest composing the jury.

swainmotes
plural of swainmote

swampful
Enough to fill a swamp.

swampfuls
plural of swampful

swampland
Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
The set of effective low-energy physical theories that are not compatible with quantum gravity.

swamplands
plural of swampland

swampsful
plural of swampful

swampside
The land lying alongside a swamp.

swampsides
plural of swampside

swanimote
Alternative form of swainmote.

swanimotes
plural of swanimote

swanneries
plural of swannery

swannery
A place where swans are bred.

swatchway
A twisting channel amongst sandbanks that is only navigable at high water

swatchways
plural of swatchway

sweathouse
sweat lodge

sweathouses
plural of sweathouse

sweatshop
A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.

sweatshops
plural of sweatshop

sweem
To swoon, faint; be giddy.

sweeteries
plural of sweetery

sweetery
A place in which sweets are made and/or sold.
Sweets collectively.

sweethearthood
The time or state of being a sweetheart.

sweetshop
A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
A drug dealer.

sweetshops
plural of sweetshop

sweetveld
Veld characterized by high levels of moisture, preferable for grazing.

sweetvelds
plural of sweetveld

sweinmote
Obsolete form of swainmote.

sweinmotes
plural of sweinmote

swinecote
A pigsty.

swinecotes
plural of swinecote

swineries
plural of swinery

swinery
A piggery.

swinesties
plural of swinesty

swinesty
A pigsty

swineyard
A yard for keeping pigs.

swineyards
plural of swineyard

swingframe
The frame of the motorcycle, where the rear tire is suspended by shock absorbers.

swingframes
plural of swingframe

switchover
A complete change or switch from one state, system or course of action to another.

switchovers
plural of switchover

swottiness
studiousness, the state of studying hard, the state of being swotty.

symplesiomorphies
plural of symplesiomorphy

symplesiomorphy
An ancestral trait shared by two or more taxa.

synapticulotheca
A wall of synapticulae in some corals

synaptid
Any sea cucumber in the family Synaptidae.

synaptids
plural of synaptid

synaxaria
plural of synaxarion
plural of synaxarium

synaxarion
A compilation of hagiographies in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, corresponding roughly to the martyrology of the Roman Church.

synaxarium
Alternative form of synaxarion.

synbranchiform
Any swamp eel of the order Synbranchiformes

synbranchiforms
plural of synbranchiform

synbranchoid
Any swamp eel of the suborder Synbranchoidei

synbranchoids
plural of synbranchoid

synchronies
plural of synchrony

synchrony
synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.

synecism
Alternative spelling of synoecism.

synecisms
plural of synecism

synergetics
A school of thought on thinking and geometry developed by Buckminster Fuller.
A school of thought on thermodynamics and other systems phenomena developed by Hermann Haken.

synform
A topographic feature which is composed of sedimentary layers in a concave formation, but may not actually form a real syncline (i.e., the youngest rocks may not be exposed in the middle).

synoecism
The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.

synoecisms
plural of synoecism

synplesiomorphy
Misspelling of symplesiomorphy.

synrhabdosome
A cluster of rhabdosomes in a graptolite colony.

synrhabdosomes
plural of synrhabdosome

syntagmatarchies
plural of syntagmatarchy

syntagmatarchy
A square formation of 256 soldiers arranged into sixteen files, sixteen ranks deep, led by a syntagmatarch; a syntagma.

synthronoi
plural of synthronos

synthronos
The bishop's throne in the apse of an Eastern Orthodox church.

syringocoele
The central canal of the spinal cord.

syringocoeles
plural of syringocoele

systempunkt
The point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), where a swarm of disruptions and attacks will cascade and collapse the system (resulting in e.g. financial loss, supply shortages, or destabilization).

systempunkts
plural of systempunkt

szlachta
A legally privileged noble class in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

tabela
stable or shed (for horses, cows, etc.)

tablea
Ground cocoa shaped into a disc; used mainly for making sikwate.

tableas
plural of tablea

tableland
A relatively flat region of elevated terrain, particularly in reference to surrounding terrain.

tablelands
plural of tableland

tachinomiya
A Japanese bar at which patrons stand rather than sit down.

tachinomiyas
plural of tachinomiya

tadasana
A position in which one stands straight upright with feet together and hands by one's sides.

taf
Alternative form of taw (“Semitic letter”).

tafs
plural of taf

tahkhana
An underground room.

tahkhanas
plural of tahkhana

taifa
A Muslim principality on the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.
A similar Islamic principality on Sicily after the fall of the en:Emirate of Sicily

taikhana
Alternative form of tahkhana.

taikhanas
plural of taikhana

tailout
The downstream section of a pool where the water gets shallower and faster before forming a riffle.

tailwater
The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.

tailwaters
plural of tailwater

tairn
Alternative form of tarn.

tairns
plural of tairn

taksal
A mint (where money is minted).

takzir
Alternative form of tazir.

talab
A pond for harvesting rainwater.

talabs
plural of talab

talav
lake, pond

talavs
plural of talav

talik
An area of permanently unfrozen waterlogged soil surrounded by permafrost
Alternative form of taliq.

taliks
plural of talik

tallwood
Firewood cut into billets of a certain length.

talook
Archaic form of taluk.

talooka
Alternative form of taluk.

talookas
plural of talooka

talookdar
Archaic form of talukdar.

talookdars
plural of talookdar

talooks
plural of talook

taluk
A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district.

taluka
Alternative form of taluk.

talukas
plural of taluka

talukdar
An Indian landholder in the Mughal Empire and British Raj, responsible for collecting taxes from a taluk.

talukdars
plural of talukdar

taluks
plural of taluk

taluq
Alternative form of taluk.

taluqa
Alternative form of taluk.

taluqas
plural of taluqa

taluqdar
Alternative spelling of talukdar.

taluqdars
plural of taluqdar

taluqs
plural of taluq

talweg
Alternative spelling of thalweg.

talwege
plural of talweg

talwegs
plural of talweg