English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 18 of 1086
Any of a number of perennial herbs in the genus Artemisia which have the aromatic gray or silver foliage of the sagebrushes, but are not shrubby enough to be termed brush.
A period of economic stagnation combined with inflation, which is distinct from more severe stagflation because growth is slowing rather than declining.
A young male who wears trousers very low on his hips, exposing underwear and/or his buttocks or lower abdominals.
a style of casual jeans or trousers which have the waistband well below the waistband of the underwear shorts, leaving the top part of these exposed.
A town in Yengisar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
Relating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.
A constellation of the zodiac traditionally figured as a centaur drawing a bow. It contains the stars Kaus Australis, Kaus Borealis and Nunki.
A phenomenon encountered in interferometry that is elicited by rotation. The Sagnac effect manifests itself in a setup called a ring interferometer. A beam of light is split and the two beams are made to follow the same path but in opposite directions. To act as a ring the trajectory must enclose an area. On return to the point of entry the two light beams are allowed to exit the ring and undergo interference. The relative phases of the two exiting beams, and thus the position of the interference fringes, are shifted according to the angular velocity of the apparatus.
A powdered starch obtained from certain palms (Metroxylon spp., esp. Metroxylon sagu), used as a flour and food thickener and for sizing textiles.
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 18. 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.