English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 16 of 132
To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
Initialism of single-column centimetre (“a charging unit for advertising space in newspapers”).
A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation], equivalent to English Shepherd.
A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation], equivalent to English Shepherd.
A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 16. 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.