's /z or s/ a sentence element used to form the possessive of singular nouns (eg John's, the dog's), some pronouns (eg one's), and plural nouns not ending in -s or a similar sound (eg the children's); often also to form the plural lower-case letters (eg m's), of numbers (eg 3's) or symbols; a shortened form of has and is (eg she's taken it, he's not here); a shortened form of us (pronounced s; eg let's go).

s or s.

1. Second(s)
2. Section
3. Shilling
4. Singular
5. Son(s)
6. Succeeded

s

Second (SI unit)

S or s /es/

1. The nineteenth letter in the modern English alphabet, eighteenth in the Roman, its usual sound a voiceless sibilant (ie pronounced /s/), but often voiced (ie pronounced /z/), and sometimes a voiceless postalveolar fricative (represented usu by sh), or voiced (as in pleasure)
2. Anything shaped like the letter S

collar of SS same as collar of esses (see under ess).

S or S.

1. Sabbath
2. Saint
3. Schilling
4. Society
5. Soprano (music)
6. South
7. Southern
8. Spades (cards)
9. Special
10. Square
11. Stokes
12. Strangeness (physics)
13. Sun
14. Sweden (IVR)

S

1. Entropy (physics)
2. (as a medieval Roman numeral) 7 or 70
3. Siemens (SI unit)
4. Sulphur (chem)
5. (in the form $) dollar

S̄

(medieval Roman numeral) 70000

zho /zhō/

1. (also zo, dso, dzho or dzo /dzō/) a kind of hybrid domestic cattle found in parts of the Himalayas, said to be a cross between the male yak and the common horned cow
2. The male of this cross

zhomo /zhōˈmō/ noun

(also dsōˈmo or jōˈmo) the female of this cross

zōˈbō noun

(also zōˈbu or dsōˈbō) the male of this cross

—The plural of all spellings of all these words is formed by adding -s

• in the lap of luxury
• in the lap of the gods
• in the last analysis
• in the last resort
• in the light of
• in the long run
• in the loop
• in the lump
• in the main
• in the majority
• in the making
• in the manner
• in the market for
• in the mass
• in the mean
• in the melting-pot
• in the middle of
• in the middle of nowhere
• in the money
• in the name of
• in the nature of
• in the neighbourhood of
• in the nick of time
• in the offing
• in the order of