English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 181 of 1086
Masses of seaweed washed ashore and in piles along a shore, predominantly algae of family Fucaceae.
Of or relating to any fungus of the order Sebacinales; they form mycorrhizas with many plants.
A village in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine; the former capital of the Kingdom of Israel; formerly, Samaria (archeological site).
One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seats: Greenwood and Fort Smith.
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.
A person holding a senior court title in the late Byzantine Empire and nearby states, generally restricted to members of the imperial family.
A person who carried images and symbols in processions of the imperial cult of Ancient Rome.
Of or relating to Thomas Sebeok (born Sebők; 1920-2001), American semiotician and linguist.
A hangul keyboard layout (or any of its derivatives). 첫소리 (cheotsori) and 끝소리 (kkeutsori) forms of consonants are input using different keys.
A city in Penang, Malaysia, consisting of the peninsular part of Penang. City centre: Butterworth.
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.
relating to the fatty fluid secreted by insects from the colleterium in order to cement eggs together
A fountain, a small structure in a Muslim area where water is freely dispensed to members of the public.
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.