sick leave 
noun [mass noun]
Leave of absence granted because of illness: he took a week’s sick leave she was on sick leave for two months...
- When PC Furness went on sick leave her absence on the streets prompted juvenile nuisance to increase on her beat.
- Grocon wants greater control over rostered days off, sick leave, annual leave and working hours.
- Most apparent in this regard is the absence of adequate sick leave, maternity provision, and child health care.
- asphyxiate
- asphyxiation
- asphyxiator
- aspic
- aspidistra
- Aspie
- aspirant
- aspirate
- aspiration
- aspirational
- aspirationally
- aspirational voter
- aspirator
- aspire
- aspirin
- aspiring
- (as) pissed as a newt (or fart)
- (as) plain as a pikestaff
- as plain as the nose on someone's face
- (as) pleased as Punch
- as pleased (or proud) as Punch
- (as) poor as a church mouse
- asportation
- a sprat to catch a mackerel
- asprawl