English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 17 of 132
A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
Represented too simply or in an overly formulaic way, reflecting a shallow or incomplete understanding of complex subject matter.
A piece of music or a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony; especially, a piece of music played in a playful manner.
An international airport in North Holland, Netherlands, serving the city of Amsterdam, and the main international airport of the Netherlands.
Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
Any of various diseases of humans caused by parasitic blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma.
A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
A geographic area and former Danish duchy in Northern Europe, located on the southern Jutland peninsula between the rivers Eider and Kongeå; now politically divided between Denmark and Germany.
Any commodity that is shoddy or inferior; now, usually, writing or audiovisual content that is shoddy or inferior.
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 17. 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.