English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 171 of 1086
An eagle with a distinctive white tail; specifically, a white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).
A type of fairy, typically female and beautiful, that inhabits the oceans, such as an undine or siren.
Rounded glass pebbles originating from glassware products that were lost at sea and broken up, which are found on beaches and have been rounded and aged through the action of surf.
A mythical beast with the upper half of a goat and the lower half of a fish; commonly used to figure the constellation Capricornus.
A small tree, of species Coccoloba uvifera, that grows on sandy beaches in tropical America; it has clusters of purple fruit.
Any member of the order Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea, large marine gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein.
Any of the small fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.
The ability, when walking aboard a ship, to anticipate the motion of the deck so as to walk steadily without losing balance.
The nominal height of the surface of the oceans above which heights of geographical features and aircraft flight levels are measured.
A regular connection between two (or more) ports, such as that provided by a ferry service.
A marine polychaete worm (genus Aphrodita) with the body covered in a dense mat of setae.
A very shallow sea bounded by Russia, Ukraine, and the Crimean peninsula, linked to the Black Sea by the Strait of Kerch.
A deep inland sea in north-western Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea via the straits of Bosphorus and Dardanelles.
A sea between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
Mare Procellarum: Synonym of Ocean of Storms (“Oceanus Procellarum”); A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System
A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.
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 171. 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.