soi-disant (fr)

(adjective) self-proclaimed so-called

solecism (en)

a grammatical mistake in speech or writing

Solidarność (en)

a Polish labour union that was founded on 17 September 1980;s the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party

solipsism (en)

(noun) a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing / (noun) extreme egocentrism

Solow's paradox (en)

aka the productivity paradox. defined as a perceived "discrepancy between measures of investment in information technology and measures of output at the national level"

somatic (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm or the psyche / (adjective) of or relating to the wall of the body; parietal / (noun) one of the cells of the body that compose the tissues, organs, and parts of that individual other than the germ cells

somnambular (en)

to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition

somniferous (en)

(adjective) soporific

somnolent (en)

(adjective) of a kind likely to induce sleep / (adjective) inclined to or heavy with sleep; drowsy / (adjective) sleepy

sop (en)

(noun) a piece of food dipped or steeped in a liquid / (noun) a conciliatory or propitiatory bribe, gift, or gesture / (verb) to steep or dip in or as if in liquid / (verb) to wet thoroughly; soak / (verb) mop / (abbreviation) standard operating procedure; standing operating procedure

sopitive (fr)

calming?

soporific (en)

(adjective) causing or tending to cause sleep / (adjective) tending to dull awareness or alertness / (adjective) of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy / (noun) a soporific agent / (noun) hypnotic

sordor (en)

physical or moral sordidness.

Sorelianism (en)

the ideology and thinking of French revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel: anti-individualist, anti-liberal, anti-materialist, anti-positivist, anti-rationalist, spiritualist syndicalism

soterial (en)

"Soterial" is an adjective meaning of or relating to salvation. It comes from the Greek word sōtēria, which means "deliverance" or "salvation". The term is often used to describe theological or biblical concepts, such as the soterial significance of religious events.

soteriological (en)

(noun) theology dealing with salvation especially as effected by Jesus Christ

soubrette (en)

(noun) a coquettish maid or frivolous young woman in comedies / (noun) an actress who plays such a part / (noun) a soprano who sings supporting roles in comic opera

sous rature (fr)

under erasure: a strategic philosophical device originally developed by Martin Heidegger; involves the crossing out of a word within a text, but allowing it to remain legible and in place; used extensively by Jacques Derrida in his philosophy of deconstruction to signify that a word is "inadequate yet necessary"

sovereign bond (en)

a government-backed bond denominated in a foreign currency, usally a widely-trusted "reserve" currency like the US dollar (contrast with "government bonds" which are in the home currency)

spatial fix (en)

(in the context of capitalist crisis) avoiding the low-growth phase problem by exporting manufacturing to places with cheaper labour, thereby raising profits for a while

Speech of Hope (en)

or "Restatement of Policy on Germany"; delivered in Stuttgart on Sept 6, 1947 by James F. Byrnes, the US Secretary of State; set the tone of future US policy as it repudiated the Morgenthau Plan economic policies and with its message of a change to a policy of economic reconstruction gave the Germans hope for the future

spidsborger (da)

philistine

spießig (en)

(pejorative) bourgeois, narrow-minded, middle-class, common

splenetic (en)

(adjective) given to melancholy / (adjective) marked by bad temper, malevolence, or spite

spoor (en)

(noun) a track, a trail, a scent, or droppings especially of a wild animal / (noun) a trace by which the progress of someone or something may be followed / (verb) to track by a spoor / (verb) to track something by its spoor