English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 100 of 1086
A period of time where the idea of an ongoing pandemic is used to defraud the general public.
A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without mouldings and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.
Convolvulus scammonia, a twining perennial bindweed native to the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin, whose juice has been used in medicine as scammonium.
An act or incident of an individual pretending to forget their previous stances or corrupt activities in order to avoid accountability.
A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the 19th century.
A numeric code transmitted by a computer keyboard to indicate which keys are currently being pressed.
An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
The paradox inherent in the idea of a particular individual human (Jesus of Nazareth) incarnating the eternal divine God.
A tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.
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 100. 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.