6-letter words starting with sa
- saturn — an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- satyra — a female satyr
- sauced — intoxicated; drunk.
- saucer — a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- sauger — a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- saughy — made of willow; full of willows
- saugus — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- saulie — a hired professional mourner at a funeral
- sauncy — sonsy.
- saurel — any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side.
- sauro- — lizard
- savage — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savaii — an island in Western Samoa: largest of the Samoa group. 703 sq. mi. (1821 sq. km).
- savant — a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
- savate — a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.
- savery — Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines
- savine — a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- saving — tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- savior — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savoie — a department in E France. 2389 sq. mi. (6185 sq. km). Capital: Chambéry.
- savona — a city in N Italy on the Mediterranean.
- savors — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savory — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- sawder — flattery; compliments (esp in the phrase soft sawder)
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- sawing — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
- sawney — a fool
- sawyer — a person who saws wood, especially as an occupation.
- saxaul — an Asian shrub with spongy bark and small leaves, Holoxylon Ammodendron
- saxony — a state in E central Germany. 6561 sq. mi. (16,990 sq. km). Capital: Dresden.
- say-so — one's personal statement or assertion.
- sayers — Dorothy L(eigh) 1893–1957, English novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
- sayest — 2nd person singular of say1 .
- saying — what a person says or has to say.
- sayyid — (in Islamic countries) a supposed descendant of Muhammad through his grandson Hussein, the second son of his daughter Fatima.
- sazhen — an obsolete Russian measure of length equivalent to 7 feet or 2.1336 m