English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 179 of 1086
Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
A controlled form of natural language based on English and designed to facilitate communication between ships whose captains speak different languages.
A permanent dwelling or settlement constructed at sea, outside the territory claimed by any national government.
The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.
A status within a group that gives one sufficient authority to be taken seriously.
A restraining belt attached to a vehicle seat and fastened around occupants in order to keep them in place and decelerate them smoothly rather than suddenly in an accident, mitigating the risk of injury from uncontrolled impact with injurious objects.
The location that is the centre of authority to govern; usually the capital city of an area.
A metal tube that connects a bicycle saddle, usually by means of a saddle clamp, to a frame.
One of the two bicycle frame tubes running diagonally downward from the top of the seat tube to the rear dropouts.
A unit of measure of passenger carrying capacity, equal to the number of seats available multiplied by the number of miles flown.
Done by feel, guess, or trial and error rather than by careful planning, thought or technique.
The usually vertical portion of a chair or similar piece of furniture that supports the back.
A cushion which covers some or most of a car seat, in order to protect it and keep it clean.
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 179. 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.