English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 123 of 1086
A specialized railroad freight car designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car, being suspended in the middle by lifting arms connected to an assembly of span bolsters that distribute the weight over many wheels.
A ewer with a spout in the shape of a beak, of a kind initially made and used by the Etrurians.
A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, iron, nickel, and oxygen.
An orange traffic barrel or cone, used to mark construction zones or hazards on the road.
Of or relating to Kurt Schneider (1887–1967), German psychiatrist, or the psychotic symptoms he listed as being particularly characteristic of schizophrenia.
The fictional universe that serves as the simultaneous setting of several television series created by Dan Schneider.
An informal law holding that anyone can create a security system they cannot personally break.
A type of German World War 2 bomber designed to outrun fighters as part of its defensive capability.
A rare disease characterised by chronic hives and periodic fever, bone and joint pain (sometimes with joint inflammation), weight loss, malaise, fatigue, swollen lymph glands and enlarged spleen and liver.
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 123. 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.