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Swoshing
- verb - move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open"
Swotting
- verb - study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
Sybarite
- noun - a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Sycamore
- noun - any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
- Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
- thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
- variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Syconium
- noun - the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
Sydenham
- noun - English physician (1624-1689)
Syenitic
- - Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.
Syllabic
- adjective - (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable; "the syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'"
- (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
- consisting of a syllable or syllables
- consisting of or using a syllabary; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing"
- of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable"