English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 114 of 1086
A semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
Of or relating to Richard Schechner, professor of Performance Studies and editor of TDR: The Drama Review.
A red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange star marking the breast of the figure in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, a part of the constellation's prominent W asterism, used for celestial navigation.
A method of grammar education used in the Byzantine Empire from around 1000 to the 13th century.
A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
A toxic cupric hydrogen arsenite with a greenish-yellow hue, formerly used in paints.
A mineral composed of calcium tungstate, with the chemical formula CaWO₄; one of the principal ores for tungsten.
A geometric rule that describes the orientation of the plane of focus of an optical system (such as a camera) when the lens plane is not parallel to the image plane.
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 114. 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.