English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 116 of 1086

Schengenname

A town in southeastern Luxembourg.

Schengen Areaname

The group of European countries that have signed the Schengen Agreement, abolishing border controls between each other.

Schengen realmname

Synonym of Schengen Area.

Schengenlandname

The Schengen Area.

Schenkname

A surname.

Schenkelname

A surname from German.

Schenkerianadj

Of or relating to the musician Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935) or his theories of musical analysis, based on interpreting the underlying structure of a tonal work.

schepelnoun

An old Dutch measure of volume used for wheat, etc.

schepennoun

A Dutch magistrate.

Schepername

A surname from Dutch or German Low German.

Scheppname

A surname.

scherenschnittenoun

An art of papercutting, cutting continuous paper designs, which began in Switzerland and Germany in the 1500s and was brought to Colonial America in the 1700s by immigrants who settled primarily in Pennsylvania.

Scherfname

A surname.

Schering bridgenoun

An electrical circuit used to measure the insulating properties of electrical cables and equipment, having the advantage that the balance equation is independent of frequency.

schermnoun

A temporary shelter made from branches.

Schermanname

A surname from German.

Schermername

A surname.

schertelitenoun

An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.

scherzandoadv

In a playful or sportive manner.

scherzonoun

A piece of music or a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony; especially, a piece of music played in a playful manner.

schesisnoun

General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.

schesis onomatonnoun

The use of a sentence constructed only of nouns and adjectives, without a verb.

Schettinoname

A surname from Italian.

scheuchzeritenoun

A mineral containing sodium, manganese, magnesium, zinc, vanadium, silicon, oxygen and hydrogen, found in Italy and Switzerland.

Scheuername

A surname.

Scheuermann's diseasenoun

A form of juvenile osteochondrosis of the spine.

Scheurername

A surname from German.

Scheurichname

A surname from German.

Scheutzianadj

Designating the difference engines built by Per Georg Scheutz.

Schexnidername

A surname from German.

Scheyvillename

A locality in the Hawkesbury council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

schiacciatanoun

A type of crisp and chewy Italian bread, originating from Tuscany.

Schianoname

A surname from Italian.

Schiaparelliname

A surname from Italian.

schiavinatoitenoun

A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal grayish pink mineral containing boron, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.

Schiavoname

A surname from Italian.

schiavonanoun

A type of sword with a basket-shaped guard, popular during the 16th and 17th centuries.

schiavonenoun

A backed, hilted broadsword of the 17th century.

Schickname

A surname.

Schick testnoun

A test to determine whether someone is susceptible to diphtheria by injecting them with small amounts of toxin.

schiedamnoun

Gin produced in Schiedam, a southern municipality of the Netherlands.

schieffelinitenoun

An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, sulfur, and tellurium.

Schieffername

A surname from German.

Schielname

A surname from German.

Schierenname

A surname from German.

Schiessername

A surname from German.

Schiffname

A surname from German

Schiff basenoun

An imine.

Schiffler pointnoun

A certain type of triangle center. A triangle △ABC with the incenter I has its Schiffler point at the point of concurrence of the Euler lines of the four triangles △BCI, △CAI, △ABI, △ABC.

Schiffmanname

A surname from German.

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 116. 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.