English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 134 of 1086
The active, hands-on process of exploration and discovery through which individuals (especially children) construct their own understanding of the natural world.
The sum of all the political, economic, technological, scientific, military, geographical, and psychological knowledge that a governing body must possess to allow it to reach logically, rationally, and morally sound conclusions.
Knowledge is power; with knowledge or education, one's potential or abilities in life will certainly increase.
Destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.
The science that expresses the radical interests and objectives involved in the struggle of the working class.
A geographical frontier capable of being occupied and defended in a strategic manner, rather than haphazardly.
The philosophical belief that nothing exists or occurs that does not have a scientific explanation, even if that scientific explanation is not yet known.
The modern form of medicine, practiced in most places throughout the world, that uses science as a guiding principle of how to maintain health and how to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases; it is sometimes supplemented with other forms of medicine, depending on whether the patient and the practitioner agree with the use of those forms.
A method of discovering knowledge about the natural world based in making falsifiable predictions (hypotheses), testing them empirically, and developing theories that match known data from repeatable physical experimentation.
A formal name according to an internationally accepted standard, especially the formal name of a taxon.
a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10
Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The application of systematic and standardized methods used to classify organisms.
A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.
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 134. 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.