English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 181 of 1086

seawornadj

Smoothed or worn away gradually by the action of the sea.

seaworthilyadv

In a seaworthy manner or condition.

seaworthinessnoun

The property of a watercraft that makes it fit to go to sea.

seaworthyadj

Fit for service at sea.

seawracknoun

Masses of seaweed washed ashore and in piles along a shore, predominantly algae of family Fucaceae.

seaxnoun

A short Saxon sword.

Seaxneatname

A god or legendary king of the Anglo-Saxons

Seayname

A surname.

Sebname

A diminutive of the male given name Sebastian.

sebanoun

plural of sebum

sebacatenoun

Any salt or ester of sebacic acid.

sebaceousadj

Of or relating to fat, sebum.

sebaceousnessnoun

The state or quality of being sebaceous.

sebacicadj

Of or pertaining to sebacic acid or its derivatives

sebacinaceousadj

Of or relating to the Sebacinaceae.

sebacinaleanadj

Of or relating to any fungus of the order Sebacinales; they form mycorrhizas with many plants.

sebacoylnoun

the radical derived from sebacic acid

Sebastianame

A village in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine; the former capital of the Kingdom of Israel; formerly, Samaria (archeological site).

Sebastianname

A male given name from Latin or Ancient Greek.

Sebastian Countyname

One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seats: Greenwood and Fort Smith.

Sebastianismnoun

The folkloric belief that King Sebastian of Portugal (1554–1578) will return from the dead to lead the Portuguese or Brazilian people as a messiah.

Sebastianistnoun

A believer in Sebastianism.

Sebastionname

A male given name from Latin.

sebastokratornoun

A person holding a senior court title in the late Byzantine Empire and nearby states, generally restricted to members of the imperial family.

sebastophantnoun

A person who carried images and symbols in processions of the imperial cult of Ancient Rome.

sebatenoun

A salt of sebacic acid.

sebecosuchiannoun

Any of the Sebecosuchia, an extinct group of mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliforms.

Sebekname

Alternative form of Sobek (Egyptian crocodile-headed god)

Sebeliusname

A surname.

Sebeokianadj

Of or relating to Thomas Sebeok (born Sebők; 1920-2001), American semiotician and linguist.

Sebeolsikname

A hangul keyboard layout (or any of its derivatives). 첫소리 (cheotsori) and 끝소리 (kkeutsori) forms of consonants are input using different keys.

Seberang Perainame

A city in Penang, Malaysia, consisting of the peninsular part of Penang. City centre: Butterworth.

sebestennoun

A medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.

Sebeșname

A city in Alba County, Romania.

sebiferousadj

Producing sebum; sebaceous.

sebificadj

relating to the fatty fluid secreted by insects from the colleterium in order to cement eggs together

sebilnoun

A fountain, a small structure in a Muslim area where water is freely dispensed to members of the public.

sebiparousadj

sebaceous

Sebișname

A river in Romania.

sebkhanoun

Alternative form of sabkha.

sebocytenoun

Any of the cells that make up the sebaceous glands, and secrete sebum.

sebocytogenesisnoun

The generation and development of sebocytes

Seboldname

A surname.

sebometrynoun

The measurement of surface lipids in skin

sebopsoriasisnoun

seborrheic psoriasis

Seborganame

A small town in Liguria in northwestern Italy.

seborrhagianoun

Synonym of seborrhea.

seborrheanoun

A skin disorder causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin.

seborrhealadj

Of or relating to seborrhea

seborrheicadj

Of, pertaining to or affected by seborrhea.

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 181. 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.