8-Letter Words Starting S & Ending ON

• a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms

• an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group

• a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task

• something reduced to its minimal form

• a scandal that is kept secret

• the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

• the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape

• arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Scorpio

• the eighth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about October 23 to November 21

• a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

• formal and explicit approval

• a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards

• official permission or approval

• the act of final authorization

• give sanction to

• give authority or permission to

• give religious sanction to, such as through an oath

• plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum

• a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads

• a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place)