English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 185 of 1086
The assignment of a property to a tax band by an estate agent who evaluates the property while driving past it.
To vet or evaluate; to criticize or correct, often by hindsight, by presuming to have a better idea, method, etc.
A person who is primarily concerned with being esteemed and valued by others, at the expense of forming his/her own independent worldview; a person who derives their decisions from the worldview of others, with the sole metric of merit based on how others will receive and accept their decision not based on merit or truth but on popular perception.
A domain that is immediately subordinate to a top-level domain (whose name appears after it, with a period separating the two).
Denoting the second in a numerical sequence of models, languages, relationships, forms of logical discourse etc.
The form of a verb used with the pronouns you (plural), y'all, you guys, etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
The form of a verb used with the pronouns thou and you (singular), or their equivalents in other languages.
Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
The situation where inflation starts to have an indirect impact, affecting wages and prices.
A burglar, especially one who performs a legitimate service at a residence and returns later to perform the theft, usually by way of an unconventional access point above ground level that was identified in the initial visit.
A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in case a "first-string" player is unavailable.
The tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by overengineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.
A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.
A boycott of one organization to put pressure on another organization which is the real target.
Asphyxiation caused by irritation of alveoli from the aspiration of liquid, after recovery from immersion into liquid, in the three-day period following the immersion episode.
Education that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education.
The financial market for trading of securities that have already been issued in an initial private or public offering.
The condition of living above the poverty line, but spending one's income on things other than the necessities of life, such as alcohol or gambling.
In Semitic languages, especially Hebrew: A root that is derived from a word that has a different known root, for example the root ת־נ־ע (t-n-'), derived from the noun תנועה, in turn derived from the root נ־ו־ע (n-w-').
Extraterritorial sanctions imposed on third-country entities that trade with already sanctioned entities.
A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
A feature that distinguishes between the two sexes in adult members of a species, but is not directly part of the reproductive system.
An internally consistent, fictional, fantasy world or setting that is different from the real "primary world".
The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.
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 185. 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.