English Words Starting With S

• susurration

  nounC2
  /ˌsuː.səˈreɪ.ʃən/A whispering, murmuring, or rustling sound.
• susurrus

  nounC2 / Rare
  /ˈsuː.sə.rəs/A soft murmuring, rustling, or whispering sound.
• susˈtainer

  nounC1
  /səˈsteɪnə/A person or thing that maintains, supports, or keeps something in existence.
• sutcliffe

  nounVery Low
  /ˈsʌtklɪf/A surname of English origin, typically referring to a family name.
• sutherland

  nounLow
  /ˈsʌð.ə.lənd/A proper noun primarily referring to a historic county and former administrative region in the Highlands of Scotland.
• sutherland falls

  nounC1
  /ˈsʌðələnd fɔːlz/A proper noun referring to a specific waterfall in New Zealand.
• sutlej

  nounVery Low
  /ˈsʌtlɛdʒ/A proper noun referring to a major river in South Asia, flowing through India and Pakistan.
• sutler

  nounVery Low / Obsolete
  /ˈsʌtlə/A person who follows an army and sells provisions, liquor, and other goods to soldiers.
• sutra

  nounC1
  /ˈsuːtrə/A rule or aphorism, especially in Hindu and Buddhist sacred literature.
• sutta pitaka

  nounLow
  /ˈsʊtə pɪˈtɑːkə/The 'Basket of Discourses', one of the three main divisions of the Pali Buddhist Canon, containing the discourses and teachings attributed to the Buddha.
• suttee

  nounVery low
  /sʌˈtiː/A former Hindu practice where a widow immolates herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
• sutter

  nounVery Low
  /ˈsʌtə/A person who makes or repairs shoes; a shoemaker or cobbler.
• sutter's mill

  nounLow
  /ˌsʌtəz ˈmɪl/A historic sawmill in Coloma, California, where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush.
• suttner

  nounVery Low
  /ˈzʊtnə/The surname Suttner, most famously associated with Baroness Bertha von Suttner, an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• sutton

  nounLow as a generic word, but high frequency as a proper noun in specific UK contexts.
  /ˈsʌtən/A common toponymic surname and placename, primarily referring to a settlement in the south of a region.
• sutton coldfield

  nounLow-Frequency (Geographic Proper Noun)
  /ˌsʌtən ˈkəʊldfiːld/A town and Royal Town in the Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England.
• sutton hoo

  nounLow (Proper Noun, Specialist)
  /ˌsʌtən ˈhuː/An archaeological site in Suffolk, England, famous for the 1939 discovery of a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial containing spectacular grave goods.
• sutton-in-ashfield

  nounVery Low
  /ˌsʌtən ɪn ˈæʃfiːld/A town in Nottinghamshire, England.
• suttung

  nounObscure
  /ˈsʌtʌŋ/In Norse mythology, a giant who guarded the mead of poetry.
• suture

  nounverbverb-transitiveC1
  /ˈsuːtʃə/A stitch or series of stitches used to close a wound or surgical incision.

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