slate.noun,.plural.slates
a list; to schedule or designate (slated the art history lecture for Thursday afternoon); a fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin, smooth-surfaced layers, pieces of which are used as roofing or surfacing material or as a writing surface; a writing tablet made of a similar material; a record of past performance or activity (his first job meant he was starting with a clean slate); a list of the new movies, for example (what movies are on the slate for our Friday night movie night?); slate rock has a dark or bluish gray to dark bluish or dark purplish gray
slate.adjective
made of a fine-grained metamorphic rock (a slate roof); the color slate
slate, slated, slating, slates.transitive verbs
to cover a roof for example, with slate; to put on a list (she was slated for a job appointment on Thursday); to schedule or designate (we are all slated to go fishing on the weekend)

slat.noun,.plural.slats
a thin, narrow piece of wood or other material, especially one of a series which overlap or fit into each other, as in a Venetian blind
slatted
slat, slatted, slatting, slats.transitive verbs
to provide or make with slats (slatting the back of a chair)

sui juris.adjective
Law: in law, of one's own right; capable of managing one's affairs (you have rights)

Sino.proper noun
a combining form meaning 'China' or 'Chinese'; Sinology; (Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Korean, show the subject having to do with China and Tibet or China and Korea)
Sinology.proper noun
the study of the language, literature and history of China
Sinological.adjective
Sinologist.noun,.plural.Sinologists

suet.plural noun 
the hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow

sarcophagus.noun,.plural.sarcophagi.or.sarcophaguses
a stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture, example Eshmanezer; the word sarcophagus is from the Greek 'sarkophagos' meaning 'coffin'

statue.noun,.plural.statues
a carved or cast.figure of an individual or animal, especially one that is life-size or larger; from Middle English and Old French and from Latin 'statua' from 'stare' meaning 'to stand'
statued.adjective

shrill, shriller, shrillest.adjectives
a high-pitched and piercing in tone or sound (the shrill wail of a siren); sharp or keen to the senses; harshly.vivid (shrill colors); if you describe a statement as shrill, you disapprove of it and do not like the strong, forceful way it is said
shrill, shrilled, shrilling, shrills.verbs
transitive verb use.to utter in a shrill manner; scream
intransitive verb use.to produce a shrill cry or sound
shrill.noun,.plural.shrill
a shrill is a bad individual who disrupts statements of others with attempts to disrail what is known to be true; a propagandizer
shrillness.noun,.plural.shrillnesses
shrilly.adverb

scroll.noun,.plural.scrolls
a roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document
scroll, scrolled, scrolling, scrolls.verbs
transitive verb use.to roll up into a scroll; to ornament with a scroll design; in computers, to cause displayed text or graphics to move vertically or horizontally across the screen so that a line of text or graphics appears at one edge of the screen for each line that moves off the opposite edge (scroll a document; scroll a page of text)
intransitive verb use.to cause displayed text or graphics to move vertically or horizontally across the screen (scrolled down to the end of the document)

self-appointed.adjective
designated or chosen by oneself or by a biased.associative.group to which one belongs, such as the corrupt.ancient.Pharisees.et al and so many groups today; a self-appointed leader or ruler has taken the position of leader or ruler without anyone else asking them or choosing them to have it; a responsibility, job, position etc without the agreement of people affected by such a corrupt one's decisions, especially those you claim to represent, such as what political parties historically have done

sandstorm.noun,.plural.sandstorms
a strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air

shrapnel.noun,.plural.also spelt.shrapnel
the fragments from an high explosive artillery shell, mine or bomb which contains metal balls fused to explode in the air above enemy troops

scathe, scathed, scathing, scathes.transitive verbs
to harm or injure, especially by fire; to criticize or severely denounce; excoriate
scathe.noun,.plural.scathes
harm or injury; from Middle English 'skathen' and from Old Norse 'skadha'
scathing.adjective
bitterly.denunciatory; harshly.critical
scathingly.adverb

semitropical.adjective
partly.tropical; subtropical
semitropically.adverb
semitropics.proper noun
regions.adjacent to the tropics

SOS.noun,.plural.SOSs
any call for help; an internationally recognized radiotelegraphic distress.signal, used by ships and consisting of the letters SOS spelled out in Morse Code (  ... - - -...  ); an international coded emergency.signal of extreme.distress, such as used by ships at sea; an urgent.appeal for help (the Coast Guard drops everything else they may be doing and heads out to help whenever they receive an SOS signal; thank God for those in the Coast Guard, they've saved countless numbers of those in trouble on the seas)

squadron.noun,.plural.squadrons
a naval unit consisting of two or more divisions of a fleet; an armored cavalry unit subordinate to a regiment and consisting of two or more troops; a basic tactical air force unit, subordinate to a group and consisting of two or more flights; an organized multitude (a squadron of mosquitos swirled around the campsite)

stoke, stoked, stoking, stokes.verbs
transitive verb use.to stir up and feed a fire or furnace; to feed fuel to and tend the fire, such as, of a firepit or furnace
intransitive verb use.to feed or tend a furnace or fire
stoker.noun,.plural.stokers
one who feeds fuel to and tend a furnace, as on a steam locomotive or a steamship; a mechanical device for feeding coal to a furnace

sabbatical.noun,.plural.sabbaticals
a sabbatical is a period of time during which someone leaves their ordinary work for improving themselves by learning and/or travel (archeologists often travel to old ruins of many centuries ago, hoping to gain information on those times way back when)
Sabbath.noun,.plural.Sabbaths
the seventh day of the week, Saturday, observed as the day of rest and worship by those of the tribe of Judah.(Romans 2:29) and by Christians; the first day of the week, Sunday, also observed as a day of rest and worship by other Christians; from Hebrew šabbat from šabat meaning 'to rest'

sponsor.noun,.plural.sponsors
one who assumes responsibility for another individual or a group during a period of instruction or apprenticeship or who proposes and urges adoption of something or who pays for advertising; one who vouches for the suitability of another
sponsor, sponsored, sponsoring, sponsors.transitive verbs
to be a sponsor
sponsorial.adjective
sponsorship.noun,.plural.sponsorships

sui juris.adjective
Law:.in law, capable of managing one's own affairs