English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 117 of 1086
Any of the tropical birds in the genus Schiffornis, found in Central and South America.
Of or relating to Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.
A method of musical composition based on mathematical processes, comprising theories of rhythm, harmony, melody, counterpoint, form, and semantics.
A facility in which animal carcasses are rendered into useful by-products, such as hides, fertilizer, soap, etc.; a rendering plant.
A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.
A famous open problem in mathematics, the hypothesis stating that, for every finite collection f_1,f_2,…,f_k of non-constant irreducible polynomials over the integers with positive leading coefficients, one of the following conditions holds: (i) there are infinitely many positive integers n such that all of f_1(n),f_2(n),…,f_k(n) are simultaneously prime numbers, or (ii) there is an integer m>1 (called a fixed divisor) which always divides the product f_1(n)f_2(n)⋯f_k(n).
A congenital neurodegenerative syndrome with various physical anomalies, including severe midface retraction, and retarded growth and mental development.
An international airport in North Holland, Netherlands, serving the city of Amsterdam, and the main international airport of the Netherlands.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal white mineral containing bismuth, lead, silver, and sulfur.
Any of a group of biochemically active compounds found in the woody vine Schisandra chinensis
Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence GalNAcβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (N-acetylgalactosamine, glucose, ceramide)
A jagged red blood cell fragment without central pallor, consequent to passage through small vessels with microthrombi, leaky prosthetic heart valves etc.
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 117. 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.