Usually means: Yellow, nonmetallic element, burns easily.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. sulfur: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sulfur: Merriam-Webster
  3. sulfur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sulfur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sulfur: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sulfur: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sulfur, sulfur: Wordnik
  8. sulfur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sulfur: Wiktionary
  10. sulfur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sulfur (sulphur): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sulfur: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sulfur: Dictionary.com
  14. sulfur: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sulfur: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sulfur (band), Sulfur (disambiguation), Sulfur (pharmacy), Sulfur (song), Sulfur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. sulfur: Rhymezone
  18. sulfur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sulfur: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sulfur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sulfur: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. sulfur: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sulfur: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. Sulfur: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sulfur: Energy Dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sulfur (element), sulfur: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sulfur: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sulfur: Sound Alike Words
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Sulfur (element), sulfur: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SULFUR: The Mineral Gallery
  2. Sulfur: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sulfur: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. Sulfur: Beauty & Health Glossary
  5. Oil Analysis (No longer online)

(Note: See sulfuring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sulfur)

noun:  (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
noun:  Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.
adjective:  Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.

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