English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 118 of 1086
A parasitic flatworm which needs two hosts to complete its life cycle. The immature form infests freshwater snails and the adult lives in the blood vessels of birds and mammals, causing bilharzia in humans.
Any of various diseases of humans caused by parasitic blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma.
Containing or composed of schist; resembling schist; (of a wine) having a mineral aroma resembling that of schist
A congenital cortical malformation characterised by full-thickness clefts lined with gray matter.
A mental disorder in which symptoms of schizophrenia and an affective disorder, such as depression or bipolar disorder, occur concurrently.
A form of psychoanalysis addressing perceived shortcomings and oversimplifications in traditional psychoanalysis.
A dry fruit that develops from multiple carpels and splits into multiple, one-seeded mericarps at maturity
With compound lenses, each with separate cornea, each lens separated from others by deep scleral walls and forming an image; the corneal membrane extends downward into sclera.
The lack of a pigment in an organism, normally rendering it a lighter colour than normal.
A body cavity that forms by the splitting of mesodermal tissue to create a coelomic cavity.
A primate term for grasping and clinging with the second and third digit fingers, instead of the thumb and second digit.
reproduction involving the splitting of an organism into a sexual and an asexual individual
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 118. 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.