Words that start with S

You sow seeds by planting them in the ground. The men in the picture are sowing lots of seeds to make a vegetable garden.

Soy is a common name for the soybean plant, and many things that are made from it.

Soybeans, or soya beans are a type of legume that are used for many, many purposes. Soy beans can be used to make soy sauce, tofu, soy milk and a great many other things. They can also be cooked and eaten when they are still green and fresh. Soy beans must be cooked before they can be eaten.
Soy beans contain protein that is close to exactly what humans need, and are a great food source for vegetarians.

Space is a common name for everything outside of earth. It is also known as the universe.

A spade is very similar to a shovel but a spade tends to have a flat end for moving loose materials like dirt or gravel.

Spanish is the language spoken in Spain, someone from Spain, or describes anything to do with Spain.

Sparring is a term for a fight, usually one for training purposes. Sparring might also mean a fight as part of a competition, and can be used to talk about a non-physical contest, such as verbal sparring. Once a fight is fueled by emotion and gets out of control, it isn't sparring.

Something sparkles when it gives off little sparks, or it looks like it gives off sparks. If something reflects lots of small points of light, like the sparkling wave in the picture, it is said to sparkle.
Wine or other drinks that have bubbles in are also described as sparkling.

Something is described as sparse if the things on it or in it are spread quite far apart from each other. The picture is of a sparse forest, with big spaces between the trees.
The opposite of sparse is dense or thick.

A speaker, or loudspeaker, is a device that converts electrical signals into sound. They do this by using that electrical signal to vibrate a cone-shaped device at particular frequencies that are encoded by the signal, which produces sound. Larger cones are better at making low sounds, smaller ones are better at making high sounds.