English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 146 of 1086
An English savoury snack consisting of a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and breadcrumbs.
A common Open Game in chess, characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4, in which white's third move is queen's pawn to the forth rank.
Transparent or translucent pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, used for sealing items together, especially paper.
A savoury dish of creamy scrambled eggs served over toast spread with anchovy paste or relish.
A dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments.
A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0377).
A follower of John Duns Scotus, Franciscan scholar, who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology in opposition to the Thomists.
A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England.
The headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police Force.
The study of the effects of darkness on living organisms, and on biological processes.
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 146. 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.