English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 14 of 1086
The practices of sadism and masochism collectively, usually in reference to consensual practices within the BDSM community.
A political strategy or act in which a leader appeals to people by harming them but convincing them that people they hate are at fault or suffering worse harm.
A cyclical period of time, roughly equal to the time needed for the complete renewal of a human population:
A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
A rare congenital disorder characterized by craniosynostosis, blepharoptosis, hypertelorism, and minor abnormalities of the hands and feet.
A continuum of Old Arabic dialects written in a distinct North Arabian variety of the South Semitic script.
A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or to hunt wild animals in their own environment.
Relating to the Safavid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty which ruled Iran between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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 14. 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.