English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 120 of 1086
A chiefly European style of popular music with light melodies (often easily danceable) and typically facile, sentimental lyrics.
Laziness, inefficiency, muddleheadedness, especially as a supposed Southern German or Austrian characteristic.
A projection of a polytope from n-dimensional space to n-1 dimensions through a point beyond one of its faces; especially such a projection (itself represented in 2 dimensions) of a 3- or 4-dimensional polytope.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal yellow mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, calcium, lead, molybdenum, oxygen, phosphorus, and vanadium.
Of or relating to August Schleicher (1821–1868), German linguist who attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, selenium, and silver.
An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a flask designed for the extraction of air to leave an inert gas or vacuum before introducing the reagents.
A geographic area and former Danish duchy in Northern Europe, located on the southern Jutland peninsula between the rivers Eider and Kongeå; now politically divided between Denmark and Germany.
A native or inhabitant of Schleswig, the northern half of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.
univalent (analytic and one-to-one) in a given region, sometimes qualified with the stipulation that the function is 0 at 0 and has a slope there equal to 1 (see Koebe function)
Regions of a fluid having different refractive index because of their different density.
The nonahydrate of sodium thioantimoniate, having the chemical formula Na₃SbS₄·9H₂O.
Any commodity that is shoddy or inferior; now, usually, writing or audiovisual content that is shoddy or inferior.
A schlocky blockbuster; a film that is tasteless and inferior but still very successful.
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 120. 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.