English Words: S

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scharacter

The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

s'morenoun

A snack food made by combining graham crackers, marshmallows (frequently toasted) and chocolate, a typical camping fireside treat.

SAadj

Abbreviation of sinoatrial or sinoauricular.

Saabname

A Swedish aerospace and defence company, which formerly also produced automobiles.

Saadname

The 38th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Saakashviliname

A transliteration of the Georgian surname სააკაშვილი (saaḳašvili).

Saanichnoun

A member of a Native American people from British Columbia.

saarnoun

Pronunciation spelling of sir.

SAARCname

Initialism of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.

Saarlandname

A state of modern Germany.

SaaSnoun

Acronym of software as a service.

Saatchiname

A surname.

Saavedraname

A surname.

sabverb

To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.

sabanoun

A sweet grape syrup made from grape must

Sabahname

A state in eastern Malaysia located at the Northern part of the Borneo island with the main city Kota Kinabalu as its capital.

Sabanadj

Pertaining to Saba, an island in the Caribbean

Sabatininame

A surname from Italian.

sabbatnoun

Witches' Sabbath.

Sabbathnoun

Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.

sabbaticaladj

Relating to the Sabbath.

Sabename

A Sasquatch-like mythological creature, representing the virture of honesty in Native American religion.

sabernoun

US standard spelling of sabre.

sabhanoun

a public meeting, assembly, or organized group

Sabiannoun

A member of a group (mentioned in the Qur'an) that is entitled to Muslim religious toleration, along with Jews and Christians; they are usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites.

sabinnoun

A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.

Sabinaname

A male given name from Latin.

Sabinenoun

A member of a certain ancient tribe of Italy.

sablenoun

A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.

sablesnoun

plural of sable

saboverb

To get someone in trouble, to prank, to sabotage another's efforts.

sabotnoun

A wooden shoe.

sabotagenoun

A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

saboteurnoun

A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of their enemy.

Sabranoun

A native-born Israeli.

sabrenoun

A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.

Sabrinaname

A legendary Celtic princess who gave her name to the river Severn.

Saburoname

A male given name from Japanese.

sacnoun

A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.

saccharinnoun

A white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products.

saccharineadj

Of or relating to sugar; sugary.

saccharomycesnoun

Any of many single-celled fungi of the genus Saccharomyces, which lack a true mycelium; especially the yeasts.

Sachaname

A unisex given name from French, equivalent to English Sasha.

sachemnoun

A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians; a sagamore.

Sachername

A surname from German.

sachetnoun

A small scented cloth bag filled with fragrant material such as herbs or potpourri.

Sachikoname

A female given name from Japanese.

Sachsname

A surname from German [in turn originating as an ethnonym].

sacknoun

A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

sackclothnoun

A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "S" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.