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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

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781 words · showing 721–780

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  • supplier/səˈplaɪə/nounB2The business that provides what you need to trade.
  • supply chainnounB2Every step from raw material to the customer's hands.
  • supply linenounB2The route along which food and ammunition reach the front.
  • support/səˈpɔːt/verbA24 meaningsTo help somebody and be on their side.
  • support networknounB2The people a person can lean on.
  • support workernounB2Somebody paid to help another with daily life.
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  • supportive/səˈpɔɹtɪv/adjectiveB23 meaningsGiving help, sympathy and encouragement to someone.
  • suppose/səˈpəʊz/verbA23 meaningsTo think something is probably true without having proof.
  • surely/ˈʃɔːli/adverbB12 meaningsUsed to show you expect agreement.
  • surface/ˈsɜː.fɪs/nounB12 meaningsThe outside or top layer of something.
  • surgeon/ˈsɜːd͡ʒən/nounB22 meaningsA doctor who performs operations.
  • surgery/ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi/nounB12 meaningsMedical treatment that opens the body.
  • surrender/səˈɹɛndə(ɹ)/verbB13 meaningsTo stop fighting and give yourself up.
  • surround/səˈɹaʊnd/verbB24 meaningsTo be positioned all the way around something or someone.
  • surroundings/səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/nounB2Everything around a place or a person.
  • surveillance/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/nounB2The constant secret watching of people.
  • survey/ˈsɜːveɪ/nounB1+4 meaningsA set of questions asked of many people to find out what they think or do.
  • survival/səˈvaɪ.vəl/nounB2Continuing to live through something dangerous.
  • survive/səˈvaɪv/verbA22 meaningsTo stay alive through danger or disaster.
  • survivor/səˈvaɪvə/nounB2A person who came through when others did not.
  • suspect/ˈsʌspɛkt/nounB14 meaningsSomebody the police think may have committed a crime.
  • suspend/səsˈpɛnd/verbB22 meaningsTo stop something for a time, or ban somebody temporarily.
  • suspense/səˈspɛns/nounB2The tense state of waiting to find out what happens.
  • suspension/səˈspɛnʃən/nounC14 meaningsThe system of springs and shock absorbers connecting a vehicle's wheels to its body.
  • suspension bridgenounB2A bridge hung from cables slung between towers.
  • suspicion/səˈspɪʃ.ən/nounB22 meaningsThe uneasy feeling that somebody is up to something.
  • sustain/səˈsteɪn/verbB24 meaningsTo keep something going over a period of time.
  • swallow/ˈswɒl.əʊ/verbB14 meaningsTo make food or drink go down your throat.
  • swamp/ˈswɒmp/nounB13 meaningsAn area of low, permanently wet ground where trees stand in still water.
  • swan/swɒn/nounB22 meaningsA large white water bird with a long curved neck.
  • swap outphraseB2To take one part out and put another in.
  • swarm/swɔɹm/nounB1+2 meaningsA thick moving cloud of insects.
  • swat/swɒt/verbB23 meaningsTo hit something small with a quick, flat blow.
  • sway/ˈsweɪ̯/verbB23 meaningsTo move slowly from side to side.
  • swear/ˈswɛə(ɹ)/verbB23 meaningsTo promise something in a serious and formal way, sometimes in front of a court or an official.
  • sweep/swiːp/verbB13 meaningsTo clean a floor with a long brush.
  • sweet toothphraseB2A strong love of sugary treats.
  • sweeten/ˈswiːtən/verbB22 meaningsTo make something taste sweeter.
  • sweetness/ˈswiːtnəs/nounB12 meaningsThe quality of tasting of sugar.
  • swerve/swɜːv/verbB2+4 meaningsTo turn suddenly to one side while moving, so as to avoid something.
  • swift/swɪft/adjectiveB22 meaningsHappening or moving quickly and without delay.
  • swig/swɪɡ/nounB2+2 meaningsA large mouthful of drink taken quickly.
  • swine/swaɪn/nounB22 meaningsPigs, taken as a group; the farming and technical word for them.
  • swing/ˈswɪŋ/verbA24 meaningsTo move back and forth through the air while hanging from a fixed point.
  • swing dancenounB2A group of dances developed to big band music.
  • swipe/swaɪp/verbB1+6 meaningsTo move a finger or thumb across a touchscreen.
  • swirl/swɜːl/verbB22 meaningsTo move in a twisting, circling flow.
  • swish/swɪʃ/verbB22 meaningsTo move with a soft hissing sound.
  • switchboard/ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbɔɹd/nounB2The system that routes incoming calls to the right person.
  • swivel chairnounB2An office chair that turns and rolls.
  • swoop/ˈswuːp/verbB22 meaningsTo drop suddenly through the air onto something.
  • sword in the stonephraseB2The blade only the rightful king could draw.
  • sword swallowernounB2A performer who lowers a blade down the throat.
  • syllable/ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/nounB2One beat of a word.
  • sympathetic/ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/adjectiveB24 meaningsFeeling and showing care for someone else's trouble.
  • sympathy/ˈsɪm.pə.θi/nounB23 meaningsThe feeling of being sorry for someone else's trouble.
  • symphony/ˈsɪm.fə.ni/nounB2A long work for full orchestra.
  • symptom/ˈsɪm(p)təm/nounB1+2 meaningsA sign that shows what illness somebody has.
  • symptom-freeadjectiveB2Showing no sign of the illness at all.
  • synchronised swimmingnounB2A team display of movement in time to music.