English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 172 of 1086
A confederacy of seafaring raiders of unknown nationality who invaded the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.
Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, especially in the genus Sebastes.
A seal, especially one of the cutest and furriest kinds of seal, such as a fur seal or a sea lion, and most especially a juvenile thereof.
A strong seaward current; a riptide or undertow, especially as results when a sandbar formed by waves suddenly gives way, and which is dangerous to swimmers.
A survival kit for survival at sea, usually containing an inflatable lifeboat, survival rations, first aid kit and flares.
Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, some species in the genus Sebastiscus.
Marine blue-green algae (cyanobacteria, actually brown coloured) of the genus Trichodesmium.
Any saltwater snail; a marine gastropod mollusk with a shell (contrasted with sea slug).
The bioluminescent dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans (syn. Noctiluca miliaris), that causes mareel.
A pillar of rock that rises from the ocean, formed by surrounding softer ground eroding away.
Any marine animal of toad-like appearance, such as sculpins (Cottidae spp.), toadfish, anglerfish (Lophiiformes spp.), frogfish (Antennarius spp.), Antarctic ascidian (Cnemidocarpa verrucosa), Australian spider crabs (Gonatorhynchus tumidus), and pufferfish.
Any of many marine echinoderms, of the class Echinoidea, commonly found in shallow water, having a complex chewing structure named Aristotle's lantern.
A comb jelly in the genus Mnemiopsis, native to the western Atlantic Ocean but invasive around the world.
A cutaneous condition associated with excessive cytoplasm loading of lipids within histiocytes.
The final reach of a river that connects with the ocean; the part of a river from which the sea is visible.
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 172. 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.