English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 182 of 1086
A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.
A hybrid of wheat and rye, similar to triticale but using rye as the cytoplasm donor.
Abbreviation of Sequentiel Couleur à Mémoire, meaning “sequential color with memory”, a TV standard.
A synthetic barbiturate used especially in the form of its sodium salt C₁₀H₁₅N₂NaO₃ as a sedative and sleep aid.
A measure of the turbidity of a body of water; the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible.
The United States Defense Secretary, the civilian head of the Department of Defense of the United States of America, a cabinet secretary.
To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
A person who secedes or supports secession from a political union or an alliance or organisation.
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 182. 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.