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Sa
- saccharo-, sacchari-, sacchar- (Greek > Latin: sugar; originally from Sanskrit, "gravel, grit")
- sacco-, sacc-, sacci- (Greek > Latin: bag)
- sacro-, sacr- (Latin: bone at the lower end of the spine; os sacrum, "sacred bone")
- sacro-, sacr- (Latin: sacred, holy)
- sag-, sagaci- (Latin: wise, shrewd, keen perception)
- sagitto-, sagitt- (Latin: arrow)
- sal-, sali- (salt) dictionary words: cum grano salis to soused, part 1 of 1.
- sali-, -sali-, salt-, -sult-, (Latin: to leap, to jump, to spring)
- saliva (Latin: spittle, the fluid secreted in the mouth)
- salpingo-, salping- (Greek: tube, trumpet)
- salvat-, salv- (Latin: save; safe)
- sana-, sani-, san- (Latin: healthy, whole; by extension: cure, heal, take care of)
- sanct- (Latin: sacred, holy)
- sanguio-, sanguin-, sangui- (Latin: blood)
- sani- (Latin: healthy; cure)
- sap-, sapi- (Latin: wise, wisdom, to be wise, to have wisdom; to know, knowledge; to taste [of], to perceive)
- sapo-, sap-, sapon-, saponi- (Latin: soap)
- sapro-, sapr-, sap- (Greek: rotten, putrid, decaying)
- sarco-, sarc-, -sarcous, -sarc, -sarcoma, -sarcomatous, -sarcomatoid (Greek: flesh, meat)
- sarmasso- (love play, necking) dictionary words: sarmassant to sarmassophobia, part 1 of 1.
- satan (Hebrew and Greek: the devil, the adversary)
- satis-, sati-, sat- (Latin: enough)
- Saturn, Roman god of the harvest and a planet, words from myths.
- satyr- (Greek > Latin: a woodland deity, part man and part goat; riotous merriment and lechery)
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaur Background Information [plus 2 pix], part 1 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Aachenosaurus to Azendohsaurus [plus one pix], part 2 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Bactrosaurus to Ctenosaurus [plus one pix], part 3 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Dachongosaurus to Eudkelosaurus [plus one pix], part 4 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Fabrosaurids to Hypselosaurus [plus one pix], part 5 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Ichthyosaur to Muttaburrasaurus [plus one pix], part 6 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Naashoiobitosaurus to Piatnitzkysaurus [plus one pix], part 7 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Pinacosaurus to Sauropodomorphs, part 8 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Saurornithelestes to Szechuanosaurus, part 9 of 10.
- sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Taphrosaurus to Zizhongosaurus, part 10 of 10.
- saxi-, sax- (Latin: rock, rocky, stone, broken rock, rough stone)
Sc
- scabio-, scabi-, scab- (Latin: rough, scurfy, scabby, mangy, itchy)
- scan-, sca- (Latin: climb, mount)
- scapho-, scaph- (Greek: boat-shaped [often refers to bones]; shaped like the hull of a boat; dug out like a boat; trench; deep vessel)
- scapulo-, scapul-, -scapula, -scapular (Latin: the flat, triangular bone in the back of the shoulder; the shoulder blade)
- scato-, scat-, skato-, skat- (Greek: dung, feces, excrement)
- scelero-, sceler- (Latin: wickedness, evil deed, crime)
- scend-, scen-, scand-, scans- (Latin: climb; mount)
- schisto-, schist-, schis-, -schisia, -scisis (Greek: split, cleft)
- schizo-, schiz- (Greek: split, cleft)
- sci-, -science, -sciently, -scientific, -scientifically, -scient, -sciently (Latin: know, learn, knowledge)
- scintill- (Latin: light, shine, spark, sparkle, twinkle)
- scio-, sci-, scia- (Greek: shade, shadow; ghost)
- sclero-, scler- (Greek: hard, hardening)
- scoleco-, scolec-, scoleci- (Greek: worm)
- scolio-, scoli-, skoli- (Greek: curvature, curved, twisted, crooked)
- scopi- (Latin: thin branches; hence, broom, brush)
- scopo-, scop-, scept-, skept-, -scope-, -scopy, -scopia, -scopic, -scopist (Greek: see, view, sight, look at, examine)
- scorbuti-, scorbut- (Latin: pertaining to, or having scurvy [a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C in the body, characterized by weakness, anemia, spongy gums, bleeding from the mucous membranes, etc.])
- scoto-, scot-, skoto-, skot- (Greek: darkness; blindness)
- scrib-, -scription (write, record) words: adscript to typescript.
- scrofulo-, scroful- (Latin: breeding sow)
- scroto-, scrot- (Latin: the pouch that holds the testes; a purse; probably a variant of scortum, a skin, hide, or of scrautum; a leather bag for holding arrows; akin to scrupus, a sharp stone)
- scrut- (Latin: search, investigation)
- scut-, scute- (Latin: shield)
Se
- se- (Latin: aside, apart from, without, by itself; used as a prefix)
- sebasto-, sebast- (Greek: reverence; venerable, august)
- sebo-, seb-, sebi- (Latin: tallow, suet, fat, fatty; grease; by extension, "pertaining to a suetlike secretion of the body")
- sec-, seg-, -sect, -section, -sectional (Latin: to cut)
- second-, secund-, secundi- (Latin: second, following)
- secreto-, secret- (Latin: the glandular extraction or elaboration of a natural substance)
- sed-, sedat-, -sid, -sess (Latin: sit)
- seismo-, -seism (shake, earthquake) dictionary words: aseism to thalassoseisma, part 1 of 1.
- seleno-, selen- (Greek: moon)
- semeio-, sema-, semato-, semat-, semasio-, semio- (Greek: signal, sign, mark)
- semen, semin- (Latin: seed)
- semi- (Latin: half, partly, twice; used as a prefix)
- semper (Latin: always, ever, at all times, on each occasion)
- sen-, sene-, seni-, sir- (Latin: old age, old, elder)
- sensi-, sensi- (feeling, perceptions through the senses) dictionary words: aftersensation to sensitization, part 1 of 2.
- sensi-, sensi- (feeling, perceptions through the senses) dictionary words: sensoria to visuosensory, part 2 of 2.
- sep-, sept- (Latin: to separate; a fence, a hedge; a wall)
- sepsi-, sep-, septi-, septico-, septo-, -sepsis, -septic, -septicemia, -septicemic (Greek: decay, rot, putrefactive)
- septi-, sept-, septem- (Latin: seven, seventh)
- sequ-, sequi-, secut-, suit-, -sue (Latin: follow)
- sequest-, sequestr- (Latin: to give up for safe keeping; a depository, trustee; to shut up illegally)
- sera- (Latin: a bar [for fastening a door], a bolt)
- serendipity (Arabic: the gift of finding interesting things by chance; the faculty of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidently)
- seri-, ser- (Latin: a row, succession, sequence, series)
- serico-, seric-, seri- (Greek > Latin: silk)
- sermo-, serm- (Latin: a speaking, talking, conversation, diction; literally, that which is put together in a certain order)
- sero-, ser-, seri- (Latin: serum, whey; watery substance; serum, in connection with serum)
- serra-, serri-, serr- (Latin: saw, saw-tooth)
- serv- (Latin: safe; to save, saved, preserved; from servare)
- serv- (Latin: to be a slave, to serve; slave)
- sesqui- (one and a half) words: hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian to sesquitertian
- Sesquipedalian words or the use of obscure sespuipedalia verbal usages; sesqui-, part 1 of 2, groups 1-17.
- Sesquipedalian words or the use of obscure sesquipedalia verbal usages; sesqui-, part 2 of 2, groups 18-34.
- seto-, set-, seti- (Latin: bristle)
- sex (Latin: sexus; originally it meant "division" and is related to secare, "to cut". Don't confuse this "sex" element with another one that means "six")
- sex-, sexi-, sext- (Latin: six, sixth; a number used as a prefix)
Sh
Si
- sialo-, sial- (Greek: saliva; spittle, foam from the mouth; the salivary glands)
- sicca-, sicc- (Latin: drying, dry, withered)
- sidero-, sider- (Greek: iron; things made of iron)
- sidero-, sider- (Latin: star)
- sigma (Greek: the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)
- sigmoido-, sigmo- (Greek: sigmoeides, shaped like the letter sigma; pertaining to the sigmoid flexure, the S-shaped bend in the colon; a combining form that usually denotes the sigmoid colon)
- sign- (Latin: mark, token, sign)
- silico-, silic- (Latin: flint, quartz, sand; a crystalline compound [SiO2])
- simal-, simil-, simul-, -semble (Latin: same, like, alike; same time)
- sinapi-, sinap-, sin- (Greek: mustard)
- sinistro-, sinistr- (Latin: left, on the left side; at, toward, or using the left; left-handed; used as a prefix)
- sinu-, sin- (Latin: curve, hollow)
- siphono-, siphon- (Greek: tube, siphon)
- sist- (Latin: cause to stand, put, place; to stand still)
- sitio-, siti-, sito-, sit- (Greek: food)
Sk
- skel-, scel- (Greek: leg)
- skeleto-, skelet-, skele- (Greek > Latin: dried up, withered, mummy; the bony and some of the cartilaginous framework of the body of animals)
- skio-, ski-, skia- (Greek: shade, shadow)
- skoto-, skot- (Greek: dark, darkness; blindness)
So
- soceri-, socer- (Latin: father-in-law)
- socio-, soci- (Latin: companion, partner, ally; interpersonal relationships)
- socra-, socr- (Latin: mother-in-law)
- sodio-, sodi-, sodo-, sod- (Latin: glasswort, saltwort; hence, sodium carbonate [which may be derived from the ashes of burned glasswort or saltwort])
- sodom- (Hebrew > Greek > Latin: inhabitant of Sodom)
- sol-, soli-, solo- (Latin: sun)
- sola-, sol- (Latin: comfort, encourage, cheer; consolation)
- soleno-, solen- (Greek: channel, pipe)
- soli-, sol- (Latin: one, alone, only)
- solid- (Latin: whole; hence, "firm, sound")
- solv-, -solu-, solut-, -sol, -soluble, -solubility, -solvent (Latin: loosen, dissolve; untie, set free)
- soma-, som-, somat-, somato-, -soma, -some, -somus, -somia, -somic, -somal, -somite, -somatous, -somatia, -somatic (Greek: body; mass)
- somni-, somno-, somn-, -somnia, -somniac (Latin: sleep; dream)
- sono-, son-, sona-, -sonous, -sonic, -sonically (Latin: sound)
- sopho-, soph-, sophic, -soph, -sopher, -sophy, -sophical, -sophically, -sophist (Greek: wise, wisdom; knowledge)
- sopor-, sop- (Latin: sleep, deep sleep)
- sorb-, sorpt- (Latin: to suck in)
- soror-, sorori-, soro- (Latin: sister [family member])
Sp
- spano-, span- (Greek: scarce, scarcity)
- spasmo-, spasm-, spas- (Greek: draw, tear, rend, pull; tension, convulsion; sudden, involuntary contractions)
- spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective (Latin: see, sight, look, appear, behold, and examine)
- speleo-, spele-, spelaeo-, spelae-, spel-, -spelean, -spelaean (Greek > Latin: cave, cavern)
- spermo-, sperm-, spermato-, spermat- (Latin: seed, germ; pertaining to semen)
- -sperse, -spersed, -spersing, -spersion (Latin: to scatter, strew, sprinkle)
- sphagno-, sphagni-, sphagn- (Greek: moss)
- spheco-, sphec-, spheko-, sphek- (Greek: wasp)
- spheno-, sphen- (Greek: wedge; the sphenoid bone, a wedge-shaped bone found at the base of the skull)
- sphero-, spher-, -sphere- (Greek: ball, round)
- sphinctero-, sphincter- (Greek > Latin: that which binds tightly, press together; band, lace; hence, muscle that closes an aperture of the body; a ringlike band of muscle fibers that constricts a passage or closes a natural orifice)
- sphingo-, sphing- (Greek: to bind)
- sphygmo-, sphygm-, -sphyxia (Greek: pulse, pulsation; throbbing)
- sphygo-, sphyg-, -sphyx- (Greek: pulse, pulsation; to beat, pulsate)
- sphyzein (Greek: throb)
- spic- (Latin: point, spike)
- spiculi- (Latin: little sharp point)
- spino-, spin-, spini- (Latin: thorn, prickle; by extension, "backbone", the spinal cord)
- spiro-, spir-, spira-, spirat-, -spire, -spiring, -spiration, -spirational (Latin: breath of life, breath, breathing, mind, spirit, courage, "soul")
- spiro-, spir-, spiri- (Greek > Latin: coil)
- spirochet-, spirochaet-, spirocheta-, spirocheti- (Greek: coil; [long flowing] hair; hence, "hair, bristle"; spirochetes, coil-shaped microorganisms)
- splanchno-, splanchn- (Greek: entrails, intestines, viscera)
- splendo-, splend- (Latin: brilliant; magnificent, sumptuous)
- spleno-, splen-, splenico-, spleni-, -splenism, -splenia, -splenic (Greek: spleen, "the inward parts;" the elongated accessory lymphatic organ of the vascular [blood] system)
- spodo-, spod- (Greek: ashes; waste materials)
- spond-, spon-, spons-, -spondence, -spondent, -spondency, -spondencies (Latin: bind oneself; promise, pledge)
- spondylo-, spondyl- (Greek: spine, spinal column, vertebra)
- spongio-, spongi-, spongo- (Greek > Latin: sponge)
- sporo-, spor- (Greek: seed, a sowing)
- sporo-, spor- (Greek: seed, a sowing)
- spous- (Latin: betrothed man, groom; betrothed woman, bride; both come from sponsus, past participle of spondere, to promise, betroth from Old French, espous [masculine], espouse [feminine])
Sq
St
- stal-, stol-, -style (Greek: send; contract)
- stalac-, stalag- (Greek > Latin: dropping, dripping; trickling; to drip, to drop, to trickle)
- staphylo-, staphyl- (Greek: bunch of grapes, uvula [that which resembles a grape hanging from a stock]; staphylococci, grape-shaped bacteria occurring in irregular clusters)
- stato-, stat-, sta-, -static, -stasi, staso-, -stasis, -stasia, -stacy, -stitute, -stitution, -sist, -stasic, -stit- (Greek: standing, stay, make firm, fixed)
- stauro-, staur- (Greek: upright stake; hence, "rood, cross"; cross-shaped, crosslike, crossed)
- steato-, steat- (Greek: fat; suet, tallow)
- stegano- (Greek: covered, to cover)
- stego-, steg-, stegano- (Greek: covering, roof, house)
- stele-, stel-, -stele, -stelic (Greek: an inscribed stone slab; a block of stone, gravestone; column, pillar)
- stell- (Latin: star)
- steno-, sten- (Greek: narrow, contracted)
- stentor (Greek: Greek herald in the Trojan war [Greek mythology]; powerful voice [literally, "groaner, roarer"])
- stercor-, sterco-, sterc- (Latin: dung, excrement)
- stereo-, stere- (Greek: solid, firm, hard; three-dimensional)
- sterno-, stern- (Greek: chest, breast, sternum, the breast bone)
- sternut-, sternu- (Latin: sneeze, act of sneezing)
- sterto-, stert- (Latin: to snore; a snoring)
- stetho-, steth- (Greek: chest, breast)
- stheno-, sthen-, -sthenia, -sthenic, -asthenic (Greek: strength)
- stib- (Latin: antimony)
- sticho-, stich- (Greek: line, row)
- stigma-, stig-, stix- (Greek > Latin: mark, reproach [from Greek, "puncture, brand, mark, point"])
- stip-, stipit- (Latin: stalk)
- stomato-, stomat-, stom-, -stoma, -stomatous, -stomous, -stome, -stomy (Greek: mouth, opening)
- stratio-, strati-, strato-, strat- stratus (Latin: horizontal layer; "stretched, spread out"; layer, cloud layer)
- strato- (Greek: army)
- strepho-, streph-, strep- (Greek: twist)
- strepto-, strepsi- (Greek: a twisting, to twist)
- string-, strict-, strain-, -stringence, -stringency, -stringe, -stringent (Latin: draw tight, compress)
- strio-, stri- (Latin: furrow, furrowed, grooved)
- stroph-, -strophy, -strophe, -strophical, -strophism, -strophic, -strophes, strepto-, strept- (Greek: turn, twist)
- stru-, struct-, -structure, -struction, -structive (Latin: build, construct, place together, arrange)
- strumo-, strum-, strumi- (Latin: tumor, swollen gland)
- stygio- (hate, abhorrence; loathsome) dictionary words: stygiophobia to Styx, part 1 of 1.
- stylo-, styl-, styli- (Greek: column; pillar; pillarlike implement or structure, especially the styloid process of the temporal bone)
- stypt- (Greek: astringent [from the verb styphein "to contract, be astringent")
Su
- sub- (Latin: under, below [suc-, suf-, sug-, sum-, sup-, sur-, sus-]; used as a prefix)
- subter- (Latin: under, beneath, secretly, less than; formed from sub-; used as a prefix)
- succi-, succ- (Latin: sap)
- -suchus (crocodile) dictionary words: Acaenasuchus to Lythrosuchus, part 1 of 2.
- -suchus (crocodile) dictionary words: Mandasuchus to Youngosuchus, part 2 of 2.
- sudor-, sudo-, sudori-, suda- sud- (Greek > Latin: sweat, sweating)
- suffoco-, suffoc- (Latin: choke, stifle, strangle)
- sugo-, sug-, -sugia- (Latin: to suck)
- sui- (Latin: self, of oneself)
- sulco-, sulc- (Latin: furrow, groove)
- sum- (Latin: highest, topmost, chief point)
- sum- (Latin: under)
- sump-, -sum- (Latin: a taking, to take up, select; to use, spend, consume)
- super-, supra-, sur- (Latin: above, over, more than; excessive)
- surg-, sur- (Latin: to raise, erect; to rise)
Sy
- syco- (Greek > Latin: fig)
- sylv-, silv- (Latin: woods, forest)
- syn-(sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-)
- syphilo-, syphil-, syphili-, syphi- (Latin: Syphil[us], the eponymous main character of Girolamo Fracastoro's poem "Syphilus sive Morbus Gallicus" ["Syphilus, or the French Disease"], published at Verona, Italy [1530])
- syringo-, syring-, -syrinx (Greek: pipe, tube, cavity, fistula; spine)
- systol-, -systole, -systolic, -stole (Greek > Latin: contraction; to draw together)
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