English Words: S
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Any leguminous flowering plant of the genus Securigera, known vernacularly alongside members of the genus Coronilla (from which this genus was separated) as crownvetches.
The fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.
To convert assets or claims (typically outstanding loans or other receivables) to securities, usually by selling them with a discount to a financial intermediary, which pools them with other similar assets and sells further as securities to third-party investors.
The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life.
A region of the world in which large-scale use of violence, such as war, among nations is highly unlikely.
An amount of money paid in advance as security against the payor's non-performance of a contractual obligation.
A team, either privately hired or working for a government, that is assigned to provide personal security for an individual or group.
A government organization established to protect its nation and its secrets from enemies.
Security measures which are intended to, or do, provide a feeling or illusion of improved security, while doing little or nothing to actually improve security.
The habit or practice of relying on a potential attacker's lack of knowledge will maintain security.
The police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
A modern form of supply-side economics inspired by US president Joe Biden's economic policy, particularly his Inflation Reduction Act, and based on the belief that globalisation has failed to achieve its stated aims.
A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.
An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair.
An open or enclosed chair raised on poles and carried by people or animals, used as a mode of transport.
The ship between the characters Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson in the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly.
A hamlet in Sandy parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1747).
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 190. 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.