English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 20 of 1086
Of, from, or pertaining to Western Sahara, the Sahrawi people or their language Hassaniya Arabic.
The continent that contains the islands of Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, especially during the ice ages of the Pleistocene when these were connected by solid land.
A series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries, during which sarim scholars were persecuted by political rivals.
An area of Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong, occupying the northern part of Sai Kung Peninsula.
A genre of accompanied vocal Japanese court music that existed during the Heian period in the Nara and Kyoto regions.
Used to point out when a character in a work of fiction has spoken the title of the work they appear in, or has spoken an iconic phrase.
A verb (such as "explained", "shouted", or "uttered") used to indicate dialogue when writing fiction, chosen so as to avoid using the word "said".
Of or relating to Edward Said (1935–2003), Palestinian American literary theorist and public intellectual who helped found the critical-theory field of postcolonialism.
Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.
A method of rosé production that involves bleeding off the juice after limited contact with the skins.
The former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam.
The art of creating miniature landscapes with living trees, rocks, water, etc., each landscape in a single tray.
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 20. 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.