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- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- semi-serious — having some seriousness; partly serious.
- semilustrous — partially or somewhat lustrous
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
- semiprecious — (of a stone) having commercial value as a gem but not classified as precious, as the amethyst or garnet.
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- shelf fungus — bracket fungus
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- silicicolous — thriving in siliceous soil
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- smilacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Smilacaceae, a temperate and tropical family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, most of which are climbing shrubs with prickly stems: includes smilax
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
- solar radius — the unit, equivalent to the radius of the sun, in which the radii of stars and other celestial objects are given.
- solitudinous — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- sporophorous — the state of being or functioning as a sporophore
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- steatomatous — of or resembling a steatoma
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stradivarius — a violin or other instrument made by Stradivari or his family.
- street virus — a virus, as rabies, obtained from a naturally infected animal and usually virulent, as opposed to a laboratory-attenuated strain.
- strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.