English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 154 of 1086
The practice of writing identifiers in all caps using underscores to separate words.
A genre of aggressive lo-fi guitar-driven music with predominantly screaming vocals, while preserving structural aspects of the emocore/hardcore emo genres of the early 1990's.
A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
An informal ceremony introducing a person to the culture of Newfoundland, often involving drinking rum and kissing a codfish.
A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
To look at another player's portion of a television screen during a competitive multiplayer game in which multiple players are sharing a screen.
A software application that speaks aloud information from a computer display, for users with impaired vision.
To transmit the content of one's computer screen (or a portion of it) to another device.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screen, test; a test of, or involving, a screen.
To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
A teenager who spends a lot of time in front of the screen of a personal computer or video game console.
Damage caused to certain types of computer screens where a frequently-displayed image "burns" a dull copy of itself onto the screen, and remains permanently visible.
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 154. 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.