English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 176 of 1086

A skin condition, caused by a parapoxvirus, obtained by close contact with infected seals (the mammals)

plural of seal

a ship used for hunting seals.

A type of fabric made from the skin of seals.

Dressed in a sealskin.

Someone familiar with the sea or seamanship; an experienced sailor.

sealing wax

Synonym of Solomon's seal.

Resembling or characteristic of a seal (the animal).

A Sealyham terrier.

seamnoun

A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.

seam allowancenoun

The part of the material or fabric added to the dimensions of a sewing pattern outside the seam.

A mermaid.

mail transported by ship over the sea

Synonym of sailor, particularly on a maritime vessel.

seamancraftnoun

Synonym of seacraft (“skill in navigating ocean vessels”).

An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing boron, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.

Befitting a seaman.

seamanlike

Skill in, and knowledge of, the work of navigating, maintaining, and operating a vessel at sea.

A female sea horse.

Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners, such as a hill or steeple.

Having or furnished with seams.

plural of seaman

A person who sews seams.

The common gull (Larus canus).

Seamless; without seams.

Not seamless.

A devoted baseball fan.

A diminutive of the male given name Seamus.

In a seamy manner.

The state or condition of being seamy.

present participle and gerund of seam

Having no seams.

In a seamless manner.

seamlessnessnoun

The state or quality of being seamless.

A little seam, as of coal or quartz.

Resembling or characteristic of a seam.

A line formed by the seam of a garment.

A Southeast Asian person.

Alternative form of sea monster.

Closest to the sea.

An underwater mountain with a prominence of more than 1,000 meters, which does not breach the surface of the water.

Polychaete worm of genus Aphrodita, especially (Aphrodita aculeata), found in the North Atlantic and in European seas.

plural of seam

A person who sews clothes professionally.

seamsteringnoun

The trade practiced by seamsters.

A woman who sews clothes professionally.

seamstressingnoun

The trade practiced by seamstresses.

seamstressynoun

The business of a seamstress.

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 176. 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.