English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 164 of 1086
To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.
A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE2992).
Of or relating to Roger Scruton (1944-2020), English philosopher specialising in aesthetics.
To magically or supernaturally look into or (as an entertainer) predict (the future), using crystal balls or other objects.
One who divines, sees or predicts the future by means of a scrying tool; especially a crystal ball.
An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.
To fly below the bases of low clouds and close to the ground in an attempt to maintain external visual reference in weather ordinarily considered too poor for visual flying.
A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
An illegal pitch where the baseball has been altered using sandpaper or a similar tool to modify its spin.
An abrasive tool for scuffing the surface of something, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
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 164. 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.