English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 147 of 1086
An area of impaired or lost vision within a visual field otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.
According to some psychoanalytic theories, the mental ability to delete and forget a trauma or overwhelming event.
The phase of a two-phase circadian rhythm associated with dark and relaxation or regeneration.
A supposed biochemical once thought to be responsible for maintaining an induced fear of the dark in the brains of rats.
Relating to or denoting vision in dim light, believed to involve chiefly the rods of the retina.
Therapeutic use of darkness, once proposed to treat malaria and more recently to treat sleep disorders and depression.
A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Middle English, spoken in parts of Scotland, now especially in the northeastern and southern regions of the country.
An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry.
A type of circuit used to produce two-phase electric power from a three-phase source, or vice versa.
One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Waldron. Named after Andrew Scott.
A topology on a partially ordered set, consisting of the Scott-open subsets of that set.
A method for giving a definition of equivalence classes for equivalence relations on a proper class, relying on the axiom of regularity but not on the axiom of choice.
Given two partially ordered sets P and Q, a function f: P → Q between them is Scott-continuous if it preserves all directed suprema.
Of a subset O of a partially ordered set P: such that it is an upper set and is inaccessible by directed joins, i.e. all directed sets D with supremum in O have non-empty intersection with O.
Of or relating to Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.
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 147. 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.