English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 152 of 1086
To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
People who identify as liberals (usually rather than leftists) are not uncomfortable with fascist beliefs.
To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands.
A copy of the edited workprint of a film made for such purposes as scoring or dubbing.
A publication that lists the horses withdrawn from a day's horse races, along with the betting odds and statistics for the horses that are running.
Of a building: built ad hoc, with whatever materials are to hand, and often just from ground level.
A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
A technique in which drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white china clay that is coated with black India ink.
A wooden post, wrapped in a piece of carpet (or similar material), that a domestic cat is encouraged to scratch (rather than the furniture).
A form of graffiti that is scratched or etched into a surface, especially one of glass or plexiglass.
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 152. 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.