English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 125 of 1086
A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.
An extinct deer (†Rucervus schomburgki) once native to south-east Asia, having a dark brown coat and lighter belly, a short mane and basket-like antlers in the male.
An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.
An evening before a typical school day; normally a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night.
The source of an education consisting of real-world experiences, especially adverse experiences.
Any of the correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia.
A particular way of thinking or interpretation, typically one disputed by the speaker.
A period of increased traffic where parents or carers take or collect children to and from school by car; a journey for this purpose during this period.
A mass shooting which occurs in a school or university, targeting their students and staff; typically in an indiscriminate manner.
A member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a worldwide religious institute of Roman Catholic sisters, founded in Bavaria in 1833 and devoted to education.
Streets near or surrounding a school that have reduced speed limits during certain hours of the day for the protection of young pedestrians and cyclists.
Of the age at which students typically attend primary or secondary school; school-age.
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 125. 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.