English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 130 of 1086
A folk dance from Bavaria and Austria in which the thighs and the soles of the shoes are slapped.
A type of electrical socket (or plug), consisting of two round holes (or pins) with ground contacts on top and bottom.
A hexagonal mineral containing carbon, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.
Any pendulum having a period equal to that of a hypothetical pendulum whose length is equal to the Earth's radius (84.4 minutes); its arm will remain locally vertical when the pivot is moved and is therefore the basis of navigational instruments
A form of gunpowder made from nitrated hardwood impregnated with saltpetre or barium nitrate.
Of or relating to E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977), influential economist and statistician.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and vanadium.
Any of a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low-frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum, generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.
The principle of creative destruction; the obsolescence of existing products due to the introduction of new products.
A matrix decomposition allowing one to write complex square matrices as similar to a triangular matrix whose diagonal elements are the eigenvalues of the original matrix.
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 130. 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.