All articles starting with S

Suessula

Suessula, ancient Campanian city near modern Cancello/Acerra, Italy; member of the Capuan league, civitas sine suffragio 338 BC, Sullan colony, Roman forum and basilica, abandoned in the Middle Ages.

Suet

Suet is the raw, hard kidney and loin fat of cattle and sheep, from which tallow is rendered; used in Christmas pudding, suet pastry, mincemeat, bird fat balls, and industrial rendering.

Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, c. AD 70–after 122), Roman biographer and Hadrian's secretary; author of The Twelve Caesars (De vita Caesarum), Julius Caesar to Domitian, thematic imperial biographies from imperial archives.

Suez (السويس)

Suez (السويس) is Egypt's Red Sea port city at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, an urban governorate and oil-industrial hub with Shell operations since 1919, SUMED Port 55 km south, and New Suez City under development.

Suez Canal (قناة السويس)

The Suez Canal (قناة السويس) is a sea-level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas, opened in 1869 after ten years of construction.

Suez Canal Authority (هيئة قناة السويس)

The Suez Canal Authority (هيئة قناة السويس) is the Egyptian state authority that owns, operates, and maintains the Suez Canal, created after Egypt nationalized the canal in 1956.

Suez Canal Company

The Suez Canal Company (Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez) was the Franco-Egyptian company that built the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, and operated it until Egypt nationalized it in 1956.

Suez Canal expansion (2015)

The Suez Canal expansion of 2015, marketed by Egypt as the New Suez Canal, added a 35-kilometer parallel channel and widened bypasses, opening on 6 August 2015.

Suez Canal University

Suez Canal University (جامعة قناة السويس) is an Egyptian governmental university headquartered in Ismailia, established by presidential decree in 1976, serving the Canal governorates and Sinai with 20 faculties.

Suez Canal Zone

The Suez Canal Zone was the area of Egypt beside the Suez Canal where Britain kept a military garrison under the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, evacuated in 1954 and 1956.

Suez Crisis

Suez Crisis: 1956 confrontation after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company; Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt in October 1956 but withdrew under US and UN pressure, ending British great-power pretensions.

Suez Crisis vetoes in the United Nations Security Council

The Suez Crisis vetoes were the first vetoes cast by Britain in the UN Security Council, on 30 October 1956, when Britain and France blocked resolutions calling for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt.

Suez Governorate

Suez Governorate (محافظة السويس) is an urban governorate of Egypt at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, with the port city of Suez as its capital.

Suezmax

Suezmax is a size class of crude oil tanker, the largest that can transit the Suez Canal fully laden, generally 120,000 to 200,000 tonnes deadweight.

SUF system FeS cluster assembly, SufB

SufB, the SUF system FeS cluster assembly scaffold protein (E. coli P77522, 495 aa), accepts sulfur from SufE at Cys254 and builds Fe-S clusters at the SufB-SufD interface under oxidative stress and iron starvation.

Oct 20, 2026

SUF system FeS cluster assembly, SufD

SufD (SUF system FeS cluster assembly, SufD, IPR011542) is a sulfur mobilization system protein forming the SufBC2D Fe-S cluster scaffold with SufB and SufC; it enables iron entry during assembly and derives from duplication of ancestral sufB.

Sufentanil

Sufentanil is a synthetic opioid analgesic of the fentanyl family, roughly 10 times as potent as fentanyl, used in general anesthesia and epidural labor analgesia.

Oct 22, 2026

SuFEx click polymerization

SuFEx click polymerization uses sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange, a click reaction reported by K. Barry Sharpless in 2014, to build high-molecular-weight polymers through robust sulfate, sulfonate, or sulfamide linkages.

Suffering

Suffering is severe distress experienced in response to pain, loss, or illness, distinct from pain itself. Key frameworks include Eric Cassell's personhood model, Cicely Saunders' total pain, experientialist versus objectivist theories, and clinimetric measurement instruments.

Suffering from Success

Suffering from Success is DJ Khaled's seventh studio album, released October 22, 2013 on Cash Money/Republic; titled after his doctor's remark on his stress disorder; features No New Friends with Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne.

Sep 19, 2026

Suffete

The suffete (plural shophetim, Latinized sufes) was one of two annually elected chief magistrates of Carthage, presiding over the senate, judging cases, and occasionally leading armies.

Sep 29, 2026

Sufficient dimension reduction

Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is a family of statistical methods that replaces a predictor vector with a few linear combinations retaining all information about the response.

Sufficient statistic

A sufficient statistic is a function of a sample holding all the information the data provide about a model's parameters, introduced by Ronald A. Fisher in 1922.

Suffield Oil and Gas Field

The Suffield oil and gas field is a group of shallow natural gas and conventional oil pools in southeast Alberta, Canada, on and around Canadian Forces Base Suffield near Medicine Hat.

Suffix

Suffix: a bound morpheme attached after a root or stem, as in English -ity or plural -s. Distinguished from prefixes, infixes, circumfixes; split into inflectional and derivational types; subject of the cross-linguistic suffixing preference.

Suffix array

A suffix array is an array of integers giving the starting positions of a text's suffixes in sorted order, enabling fast full-text search through binary search.

Suffix tree

The suffix tree, also called a position tree, is a compressed trie containing all suffixes of a text, allowing substring queries in time linear in the pattern length.

Suffocation (band)

Suffocation is an American brutal/technical death metal band formed in the late 1980s in Centereach, Long Island, New York, known for Effigy of the Forgotten (1991), inventing slams, and nine studio albums through Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023).

Suffolk

Suffolk, rural county in East of England (1,466 sq mi, population over 786,000, largest town Ipswich). Two-tier local government of county plus five district councils; 2026 plan for three unitary authorities withdrawn September 2026.