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7,169 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

Séléné: Selene
Sémèle: Semele (the mother of Dionysus)
Sénezien: an inhabitant of Senez, a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Sénonien: Senonian
Sénèque: Seneca
Sénégal: Senegal (a country in West Africa)
Sénégalais: a Senegalese, member or descendant of the population of from Senegal
Séoul: Seoul (the capital city of South Korea)
Séraphine: a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Seraphina
Sérapis: Serapis (Greco-Egyptian god)
Sérénissime: Venice
Sésame, ouvre-toi: open sesame
Sétif: a city in eastern Algeria
Séverin: a male given name derived from Latin Severinus, rather rare today
Séverine: a female given name popular in the 1970s; a feminine form of Séverin, from the Latin saints' name Severinus
Sévigny: a surname
Séville: Seville (the capital city of Andalusia, Spain); Seville (a province of Andalusia, Spain)
Sévère: Severus
Sôhar: alternative spelling of Sohar
Sôter: Soter
Sûre: Sauer
Sûreté: Sûreté Nationale; Sûreté du Québec
Sûreté du Québec: Sûreté du Québec
s long: long s (the ſ character, as distinct from the short s (which is the s character))
s': Elision of si (“if”) before il or ils.
s': Elision of se before a word beginning with a vowel.; Elision of se before a word beginning with a consonant.
s'acheter une conduite: to clean up one's act, to reform, to get back on the straight and narrow, to straighten up and fly right, to mend one's ways
s'affoler: to go crazy, go bonkers; to hurry up, to make haste
s'agir: to be about; to be a question of; to essentially be; to be essentially
s'amuser comme un petit fou: to have the time of one's life, to have a whale of a time, to enjoy oneself immensely
s'appeler: to be called; to have the name of
s'appeler retour: synonym of s'appeler reviens
s'appeler reviens: to be only lent and have to be returned
s'arracher les cheveux: to despair, to tear one's hair out
s'astiquer le poireau: to masturbate (literally, “to polish the leek”)
s'avouer vaincu: to admit defeat, to give up
s'emmêler les pinceaux: to get one's wires crossed, to get things all mixed up, to get into a muddle, to misstep
s'en aller: to go away, to leave
s'en aller au diable: to go fly a kite
s'en battre les steaks: to not give a damn about
s'en donner à cœur joie: to enjoy something wholeheartedly, to throw oneself into something wholeheartedly, to enjoy oneself to the full, to have a field day, to indulge oneself to one's heart's content, to go at it hammer and tongs
s'en faire: ellipsis of se faire du mauvais sang: to worry, to fret
s'en faire accroire: to make oneself believe stories.
s'en falloir: to be missing
s'en mettre plein la lampe: to make a pig of oneself, to stuff one's face
s'en mettre plein la panse: to make a pig of oneself, to stuff one's face
s'en mettre plein les fouilles: to make a bundle, to rake in money hand over fist (to get outrageously rich)
s'en mettre plein les poches: to make a bundle, to rake in money hand over fist (to get outrageously rich)
s'en prendre plein la figure: to be hauled over the coals, to take a lot of heat, to get it in the neck, to get a bollocking (to get severely criticized, to get castigated); to be insulted
s'en prendre plein la gueule: to be hauled over the coals, to take a lot of heat, to get it in the neck, to get a bollocking (to get severely criticized, to get castigated); to be insulted
s'en prendre plein la tronche: to be hauled over the coals, to take a lot of heat, to get it in the neck, to get a bollocking (to get severely criticized, to get castigated); to be insulted
s'en prendre une: to get slapped or punched on the face
s'en prendre à: to blame; to lash out at, to lay into
s'en rapporter à: to refer oneself about it to
s'en sortir: to overcome a difficult situation; to manage; to come out of a situation; to get out; to escape a fate
s'en tenir là: to keep to that point of it.
s'en être: Used only in the simple past tense for s'en aller
s'endormir sur ses lauriers: to rest on one's laurels
s'enfarger dans les fleurs du tapis: (figurative) To get bogged down in the details
s'enfuir: to flee; to run away