Index of English words, starting with "su"

(1) - Surety (v. t.) To act as surety for.
(2) - Surety (n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
(3) - Surety (n.) Hence, a substitute; a hostage.
(4) - Surety (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.
(5) - Surety (n.) Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.
(6) - Surety (n.) That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
(7) - Surety (n.) The state of being sure; certainty; security.

(1) - Suretyship (n.) The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.

(1) - Surf (n.) The bottom of a drain.
(2) - Surf (n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.

(1) - Surface (v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.
(2) - Surface (v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
(3) - Surface (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
(4) - Surface (n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
(5) - Surface (n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.
(6) - Surface (n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.