English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 208 of 1086
The state or property of being self-aware; state of being aware of oneself as an individual.
A billing arrangement whereby the customer calculates costs and sends back an invoice to the supplier.
Of or relating to a style of blended learning in which students opt to take online courses in addition to their traditional face-to-face learning.
Of a video camera: manufactured with insulation against noise, thus not requiring a blimp (soundproof cover).
Built by oneself, whether from scratch, from commercially available components, or a combination thereof.
The care given to oneself, especially to maintain one's physical or psychological well-being.
The act of censoring one's own work or what one says without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority, often for fear of sanctions.
The state, quality, or condition of being self-centered; concern only for oneself.
The act of an employee certifying their absence from work due to sickness, and the eligibility for statutory sick pay.
To confirm or certify something without the substantiation of another person or party.
Of a signal: able to be decoded without the need for a separate source of synchronization.
To regain power (by indigenous people) after having been under colonial rule by another country, typically with the adoption of some of the culture of the former colonizers.
Given a bounded linear operator B and its adjoint B^*, the self-commutator is B^*B-BB^*.
The extension of compassion to one's self in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering.
Conceit of oneself; an overweening opinion of one's own powers or endowments; vanity.
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 208. 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.