English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 169 of 1086
Any of the family Scyllaridae of crustaceans with depressed body and broad, flat antennae; a slipper lobster
An individual cell in a stage of the life cycle of a true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), a colony of such cells, when it resembles a polyp and breeds asexually by strobilation.
A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans.
Any member of the family Scytalinidae of very slender burrowing fish called graveldivers.
An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
A bird having its bill in the shape of a scythe, such as those in the genus Campylorhamphus.
A geographic region encompassing the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, inhabited by nomadic Scythians from at least the 11th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.
Of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
The female warrior who trains Cúchulainn in the arts of war in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
A scene which is demanded by the progression of the plot so far; an indispensable culminating scene.
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 169. 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.