English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 207 of 1086
Self-motion or the power of moving one's self or itself without foreign or external aid.
Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.
To achieve self-actualization; to reach one's personal peak of individual empowerment and fulfillment.
Not requiring external adjustment; adapting itself automatically to the circumstances in which it is used.
The condition of a fractal whose pieces are scaled by different amounts in the x and y directions, so that self-similarity becomes apparent only after an anisotropic transformation.
Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.
Of an animal: to smear odoriferous secretions or substances over itself, for various purposes such as medication or camouflage.
The depositing of a free copy of an electronic document online by its author, so as to provide open access to it.
Any of various mountaineering maneuvers in which a climber who has fallen and is sliding down a slope halts the slide without recourse to a rope or other belay system.
A form of attention (machine learning method) where input sequence is compared with itself, i.e. the keys and queries are the same.
In the law of evidence, being a piece of evidence that will automatically be presumed authentic for purposes of admissibility based on the character of the evidence itself. Examples include certified copies of public or business records, official publications of government agencies, and newspaper articles.
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 207. 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.