Words that start with S

Sugar is a substance made from the juice of the sugar cane or sugar beet. White table sugar is highly refined and purified. The leftovers from the refining process is called molasses, and less pure sugar is sold as raw sugar and brown sugar.
Sugar is the main ingredient in candies, and one of the main ingredients in most sweet foods.

The sugar glider is a small marsupial found in Australia and New Guinea that looks like a tiny possum. Sugar gliders have a flap of skin between their front and back legs on both sides that they can stretch out and use to glide. Sugar gliders can jump out of trees and glide through the air to another tree, like a flying squirrel.
Sugar gliders eat the sweet sap of some trees, and some types of nectar.

A suitcase is a kind of box with a handle that you use for putting your clothes in when you travel.
Packed suitcases are sometimes called luggage.

lan A sulky is a small, two-wheeled horse-drawn cart. It is used for driving or racing horses.

A sultana is a dried grape and is called a raisin in most countries.
Grapes without seeds that are grown to be turned into raisins are also called sultana grapes.

A summit is the highest point of something, particularly a hill or mountain.
A similar word to summit is peak or apex.

Sunburn is a type of burn that you get when you spend too much time in the sun without wearing sunscreen. Bad sunburn can be extremely painful, and can make your skin blister and peel. You treat sunburn the same way as any other minor burn, with special burn creams and even anaesthetic sprays. Too much exposure to the sun makes your skin age early and become dry and wrinkly, and can give you skin cancer.

Sundews are a large family of carnivorous plants. They catch insects on sticky glands on their leaves and digest them. Sundews live in poor soils and need the nutrients from insects that they cannot get from the soil. They get their name because the sticky substance they produce looks like beads of dew.

Sunflowers are a tall flowering plant that loves sunny weather. It usually grows to about 2 metres tall, but some varieties have grown as tall as 8 metres. A sunflower head will ripen to be full of seeds which have many uses. The seeds are black and white striped and have a hard shell. When the shell is removed, the seed can be eaten raw or roasted. Birds are very fond of sunflower seeds. The seed can also be pressed for oil that is used for cooking.
The sunflower in the picture has a bee on it.

Sunglasses are worn over your eyes so you don't get dazzled by the sun. Some people wear them because they think it makes them look better.