Sweatpants Sweatpants are a kind of informal, comfortable trousers.
	Sweatshop A sweatshop is a factory or workshop that has attributes in common with the workplaces of the pejoratively-named sweating system of the 1840s. Sweatshops arose at a time when workers did not have the protections afforded by trade unions or labor laws, and sweatshops are synonymous with working conditions that violate human rights sensibilities and sometimes public policies.
	Sweden The Kingdom of Sweden is a Nordic countries in Scandinavia. It is bordered by Norway in the west, Finland in the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait in the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia in the east. It is connected to Denmark in the southwest by the Oresund Bridge.
	Swedish krona The krona has been the currency of Sweden since 1873. It is locally abbreviated kr. The plural form is kronor and one krona is divided into 100 re . The currency is sometimes informally referred to as the "Swedish crown" in English or the "couronne sudoise" in French.
	Sweeper Sweepers are small, tropical marine perciform fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains approximately 26 species in two genus. One species is the target of subsistence fishery in Japan, where the fish is much enjoyed for its taste.
	Sweet Birch Sweet Birch, also known as Cherry Birch or Black Birch, is a species of birch native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southernmost Ontario and southern Michigan, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia.
	Sweet Chestnut The Sweet Chestnut is a species of chestnut native to southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree attaining a height of 20-35 m with a trunk often 2 m in diameter. The oblong-lanceolate, boldly toothed leaf are 16-28 cm long and 5-9 cm broad.
	Sweet Flag Calamus or Common Sweet Flag is a plant from the Acoraceae family. It is a tall perennial wetland monocot with scented leaves and rhizomes which have been used medicinally, for its odor, and as a Psychoactive drug. It is known by a variety of names, including cinnamon sedge, flagroot, gladdon, myrtle flag, myrtle grass, myrtle sedge, sweet cane, sweet myrtle, sweet root, sweet rush, and sweet sedge.
	Sweet granadilla The sweet granadilla is a plant of the species named Passiflora ligularis because of the plant's ligule corollae. It is native to the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Venezuela. It grows as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Mexico and in the tropical mountains of Africa and Australia.
	Sweet grass Sweet grass, also known as Sweetgrass, Holy grass, buffalo grass, Vanilla grass, Manna grass, Seneca grass, Mary's grass, Zebrovka, or Bison grass, is an aromatic herb which grows in northern Eurasia and North America. It is used in herbal medicine and manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
	Sweet Pickles Sweet Pickles is a series of 40 children's literature by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter. The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickles and are about anthropomorphic animals with different personalities and behavior. There are 26 animalsone for each letter of the alphabet.
	Sweet potato The sweet potato is a agriculture plant whose large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens . The sweet potato is only distantly related to the potato . Although the sweet potatoes are sometimes called "yams" in the United States, they are even more distantly related to the true yam .
	Sweet sorghum Sweet sorghum is any of the many varieties of sorghum, a sugarcane-like plant with a high sugar content. Sweet sorghum will thrive under drier and warmer conditions than many other crops and is grown primarily for forage, silage, and sugar production. Africa Atlantic slave trade introduced the crop, which then was known as "Guinea corn," into the United States in the early part of the 17th century.
	Sweet violet Sweet Violet is a species of the genus Violet native to Europe and Asia, but has also been introduced in North America. It is also called the Garden Violet. Viola odorata is quite similar to other species of violet, but can be distinguished by the following characteristics:
	Sweet William Sweet William is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans. It is a herbaceous biennial plant or short-lived perennial plant growing to 40-70 cm tall, with green, blue-green or glaucous tapered leaf 4-10 cm long and 1-2 cm broad.
	Sweetbrier The Sweetbrier or Eglantine rose forms an arching shrub 2-3 m high and across. It is native to Britain and northern Europe. In addition to its beautiful pink flowers, it is valued for the strong apple-like fragrance of its foliage, and the rose hip that form after the flowers and persist well into the winter.
	Swift The swifts are birds superficially similar to hirundinidae but are actually not closely related to those passerine species at all; swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they formerly shared with the hummingbirds. The resemblances between the swifts and swallows are due to convergent evolution reflecting similar life styles based on catching insects in flight.
	Swimming Swimming is a technique that humans, and other animals, use to move through water using only movements of the body. This article concentrates on human swimming, a recreational activity and a competitive sport. There are health benefits of swimming, but it also entails risks. History
	Swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bathing, or wading pool is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for recreational or competitive swimming, diving, or for other bathing activities that involve swimming, e.g. play , wading, water exercise, floating around on inner tubes, or merely cooling off on hot days.
	Swimsuit A swimsuit, bathing suit, aqua jammies or swimming costume is an item of clothing designed to be worn for swimming. In New Zealand English and some areas of Australian English, swimsuits are usually called togs. This term is less common in other parts of the Commonwealth English where it can also refer to clothes in general.
	Swineherd A Swineherd is a person who looks after domestic pig, rather like a shepherd looks after sheep. Today the term is generally used in a historical context. Pig farming today is still carried out in a manner that can be compared to that practiced in Roman times. Marcus Terentius Varro recommended waiting till sows are 1 year and 8 months old before mating them but recommended continuing to breed them till they were 7 years old.
	Swiss cheese Swiss cheese is the generic name, in the United States, Canada and Australia, for several related varieties of cheese, all of which resemble the Switzerland Emmental cheese. It has a distinctive appearance, as a block of the cheese is riddled with holes known as eyes.
	Swiss franc The franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Franc banknotes are issued by the central bank of Switzerland, the Swiss National Bank, while coins are issued by the federal mint, Swissmint. The Swiss franc is the only version of the franc still issued in Europe.
	Swiss Pine The Swiss Pine or Arolla Pine is a species of pine tree that occurs in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, in Poland, Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania. It typically grows at 1,500-2,200 m altitude.
	Swiss roll Swiss roll is a type of sponge cake baked in a very shallow rectangular baking tray, and then filled, rolled up, and served in circular slices. In most cases, it is rolled up in a clean tea towel as soon as it comes out of the oven, while it is still flexible enough to roll without cracking.
	Switch A switch is a device for changing the course of a circuit. The prototypical model is a mechanical device which can be disconnected from one course and connected to another. The term "switch" typically refers to electricity Electric power or electronic telecommunication circuits.
	Switchblade A switchblade is a type of knife with a folding blade that spring out of the grip when a button or lever on the grip is pressed.
	Switcher A switcher is a small Rail transport locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been brought in, and generally moving railroad cars around - a process usually known as Shunt.
	Switcheroo Switcheroo is a List of The Price Is Right pricing games on the United States television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting in 1976, this game is played for a car, plus four small prizes.
	Switzerland Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked Alpine country in Central Europe. A male native of Switzerland is said to be a Schweizer and a female is a Schweizerin in German language; Suisse or Suissesse in Swiss French and svizzero or svizzera in Italian language.
	Swivel chair The swivel chair is a basic chair that turns at a 360 degree angle to spin around to reach for something you would like to get or face another was without getting up and turning the chair. It is also known as an office chair. They sometimes have wheels as well for easy moving. They are mostly used in offices or places where personal computer are.
	Swizzle stick Swizzle sticks are small spear-like sticks with flat paddle-shaped handles, placed in cocktails to hold fruit, or merely to stir the drink. They were invented by Jay Sindler in 1933, shortly after prohibition ended. Sindler, an engineer, was trying to get the olive out of his martini cocktail without using his fingers.
	Swoosh Swoosh is the symbol of the athletic shoe and clothing manufacturer Nike, Inc.. It is among the most easily recognized brand symbols in the world, with such logos as the Coca-Cola signature device. The Nike "Swoosh" is a design created in 1971 by Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student at Portland State University.
	Sword Sword is a term for a long edged weapon, used by various civilizations throughout Eurasia and North Africa. A sword fundamentally consists of a blade, usually with two edges for striking and cutting, a point for thrusting, and a hilt for gripping. The basic intent and physics of swordsmanship remain fairly constant, but the actual techniques vary among cultures and periods as a result of the differences in blade design and purpose.
	Sword dance Sword dances are recorded from throughout world history. There are various traditions of solo and mock battle sword dances from Greece, the Middle East and Japan, while all known linked sword dances are from Europe. General sword dance forms include: *solo dancers around swords – such as the traditional Scottish sword dances.
	Swordfish Swordfish are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat bill in contrast to the smooth, round bill of the marlins. They are a popular sport fish, though elusive. Swordfish are elongated, round-bodied, and lose all teeth and scales by adulthood. They reach a maximum size of 14 ft and 1,190 lb.
	Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4.2 million people . Sydney is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales and is located on the country's south-east coast. The first European colony in Australia, Sydney was established in 1788 at Sydney Cove by Arthur Phillip who led the First Fleet from Britain.
	Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, producer and actor. His career started in the 1960s, directing episodes of TV series such as The Fugitive and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City before embarking on his acting career.
	Syllable A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins . Syllables are often considered the phonology "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetry meter, its lexical stress patterns, etc.
	Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was an United States poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Most famous as a poet, Plath is also known for The Bell Jar, her semi-autobiographical novel detailing her struggle with clinical depression. Plath and Anne Sexton are credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry that Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass initiated.
	Symbiosis In some cases, the term symbiosis is used only if the association is obligatory and benefits both organisms. Symbiosis as defined in this article does not restrict the term to only the mutually beneficial interactions . Symbiosis may be divided into two distinct categories: ectosymbiosis and endosymbiosis.
	Symbol A symbol, in its basic sense, is a conventional representation of a concept; i.e., an idea, object , quality, quantity, etc. In more psychological and philosophical terms, all concepts are symbolic in nature, and representations for these concepts are simply token artifacts that are allegorical to a symbolic meaning, or symbolism.
	Symbolics Symbolics is a privately held company that acquired the assets of the now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. and continues to sell and maintain the Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.
	Symmetry Symmetry is a characteristic feature of geometry shapes, systems, equations, and other real or conceptual Object —typically, in which one half of the object appears to be a reflection of the other half. In formal terms, we say that an object is symmetric with respect to a given Operation , if, when applied to the object, this operation does not change the object or its appearance.
	Symphoricarpos Symphoricarpos is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the family Caprifoliaceae. All but one are natives of North America and Central America; the one remaining is from western China. The leaf are 1.5-5 cm long, rounded, entire or with one or two lobes at the base.
	Symposium Symposium originally referred to a drinking party but has since come to refer to any academic conference, whether or not drinking takes place. The sympotic elegies of Theognis of Megara, two Sokratikoi logoi, Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium all describe symposia in the original sense.
	Synagogue A synagogue is a Jewish place of religious worship. The word "synagogue" is derived from the Greek language s??a????, transliterated synagog, "place of assembly" literally "meeting, assembly" from sunagein, to bring together; in Indo-European roots. It is where Judaism's Jewish services are held and conducted .
	Synapsid Synapsids also known as Theropsids, traditionally described as 'mammal-like reptiles', are a group of amniotes that developed one opening in their skull behind each eye, about 320 million years ago during the late Carboniferous Period.
	Synaptics Synaptics is a touchpad original equipment manufacturer provider for most major computer and laptop companies like Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway_Computers, IBM, Lenovo, Samsung and several others. Synaptics is located in Santa Clara, California, California and was founded in 1986 by Carver Mead and Federico Faggin.
	Synchrocyclotron A synchrocyclotron is a cyclotron in which the frequency of the driving RF electric field is varied to compensate for the mass gain of the accelerated particles as their velocity begins to approach the speed of light. This is in contrast to the classical cyclotron, where the frequency was held constant.
	Synchroscope In alternating current electricity power systems, a synchroscope is a device that indicates the degree to which two systems are synchronization with each other. For two electrical systems to be considered synchronized, both systems must be operating at the same frequency, and the phase angle between the systems must be zero.
	Synchrotron A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator in which the magnetic field and the electric field are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam. They were developed to study high-energy particle physics.
	Syncopation In music, syncopation is the stressing of a normally unstressed beat in a bar or the failure to sound a note on an accented beat. Syncopation is used on occasion in many music styles, including European classical music, but it is a fundamental constant presence in such styles as ragtime and jazz.
	Synesthesia Synesthesia -- from the Greek syn- meaning union and aesthesis meaning sensation -- is a neurology condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. In a form of synesthesia known as grapheme-color synesthesia, letters or numbers may be perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.
	Syngnathidae Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes the seahorses, the pipefishes, and the weedy sea dragon and leafy sea dragons. Fish of this family have the unique characteristic whereby females lay their egg in a brood pouch on the male's chest, and the male then fertilizes and incubates the eggs.
	Syngonium Syngonium is a genus of 33 species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical rain forests in Central America and South America. They are woody vines growing to heights of 10-20 m or more in trees. They have leaf that change shape according to the plant's stage of growth, and adult leaf forms are often much more lobed than the juvenile forms usually seen on small house plants.
	Synodontidae Synodontidae is a family of fish known as lizardfishes. Lizardfishes are marine fish found throughout the world. They are small cylindrical fish with mouths full of sharp teeth, even on the tongue. There are 64 species in five genera.
	Synovial joint Synovial joints are the most common and most moveable type of joints in the body.
	Synthesizer A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive synthesis, subtractive synthesis, FM synthesis, physical modelling synthesis synthesis, or phase modulation.
	Synthetic cubism Synthetic Cubism was the second main branch of Cubism developed by Picasso, Braque and others between 1912 and 1919. It was seen as the first time that collage had been made as a fine art work. The first work of this new style was Picasso's Still Life with Chair-caning, which included oil cloth pasted on the canvas, and the letters JOU, which appears in many cubist paintings.
	Syphilis Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. Syphilis has many alternate names, including "syph", "the Pox" , "lues" , and the "freedom disease." The route of transmission of syphilis is almost invariably by sexual contact; however, there are examples of direct contact infections and of congenital syphilis .
	Syracuse Syracuse may refer to: Large cities: * Syracuse, Italy * Syracuse, New York Small cities and other municipalities: * Syracuse, Indiana * Syracuse, Kansas * Syracuse, Missouri * Syracuse, Nebraska * Syracuse, Ohio * Syracuse, South Carolina * Syracuse, Utah
	Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in the Middle East. It borders Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. Israel Israeli-occupied territories the Golan Heights in the southwest of the country; a dispute with Turkey over the Hatay Province now seems to have subsided.
	Syrian pound The Syrian pound is the currency of Syria. The pound is subdivided into 100 qirsh, although coins in qirsh are no longer issued. The standard abbreviation for the Syrian pound is SYP. On 5 December 2005, the selling rate quoted by the Commercial Bank of Syria was 58.4 SYP to the US dollar.
	Syringe A syringe consists of a plunger fitted to a tube, called the barrel, which has a small opening on one end. Syringes are used to transfer small amounts of liquids or gasses to or from otherwise inaccesible areas. It operates on the principle of suction by filling the barrel with the substance at the opening when the plunger is drawn out, and expelling the substance when the plunger is depressed.
	Syrrhaptes Syrrhaptes is a genus of birds in the sandgrouse family. It comprises two central Asian species. * Tibetan Sandgrouse, Syrrhaptes tibetanus * Pallas's Sandgrouse, Syrrhaptes paradoxus These are large birds breeding in open steppes or plateau. They nest in a ground scrape into which three eggs are laid.
	Systemic circulation Systemic circulation is the portion of the cardiovascular system which carries oxygenated blood away from the heart, to the body, and returns oxygen-depleted blood back to the heart. The term is contrasted with pulmonary circulation. Oxygenated blood from the lungs leaves the left heart through the aorta, from where it is distributed to the body's organ and biological tissue, which absorb the oxygen, through a complex network of arteries, arterioles, and capillaries.
	Syzygium Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants, belonging to the myrtle family Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 500 species, and occurs in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. It is closely related to the mainly New World genus Eugenia; some botanists include Syzygium in Eugenia.