English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 194 of 1086
A farewell which implies that the person addressed is about to die and be damned; often uttered in bravado by one adversary to imply that the other adversary may defeat them in some conflict but in the end both will be dead and in hell, making the victory a Pyrrhic one.
A stereotypically Scottish novelty hat: a tartan tam-o'-shanter with false ginger hair attached.
A phrase used at parting, and not necessarily implying that the person being addressed will be seen later by the speaker.
the thermodynamic effect by which heat being passed through a thermocouple is converted into electricity
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
The early investment of capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake in the company.
A plant which reproduces by breading seeds in the wide sense of the term, including spores etc.
A place used for storage of seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves or biodiversity elsewhere are destroyed.
The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism.
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 194. 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.