English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 211 of 1086

self-discoverynoun

The action or process of achieving self-knowledge.

self-discriminationnoun

The practice or habit of discriminating against oneself; being too hard upon oneself.

self-disgustnoun

Disgust with oneself.

self-dissatisfactionnoun

The dissatisfaction with oneself.

self-distancenoun

The ability to critically reflect on oneself and one's relations from an external perspective.

self-distributeverb

To distribute without outside help.

self-distrustnoun

Distrust of, or lack of confidence in, oneself or in one's own powers.

self-domesticateverb

To undergo self-domestication.

self-domesticationnoun

A hypothesized evolutionary process by which a species develops traits typically associated with domestication, such as reduced aggression or prosocial behavior, through natural selection within its own population rather than by deliberate breeding.

self-doubtnoun

The doubting of one's own abilities.

self-drillingadj

self-tapping with a drill point

self-driveverb

To drive autonomously; (of a motor vehicle) to drive itself without a human operator, by means of sensors and computer technology.

self-drivingadj

Of a motor vehicle: equipped with sensors and computer technology to allow it to drive without a human operator.

self-driving carnoun

An autonomous vehicle taking the form of a car. A car with some driving capacity.

self-dryverb

Of a substance or other material, to dry itself without external intervention.

self-dualadj

Of a vector space, isomorphic to its dual space.

self-editverb

To censor oneself; to stop oneself from saying certain things.

self-educateverb

To learn or study without the direction of a teacher.

self-educatedadj

Of a person, having learned without the direction of a teacher.

self-educationnoun

The act or process of educating oneself by one's own efforts.

self-effacementnoun

The act of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.

self-effacingadj

Shy, extremely humble and modest; making oneself seem unnoticeable.

self-effacinglyadv

The quality of carrying oneself in a humble manner.

self-effacingnessnoun

Having the quality of humility.

self-efficacynoun

The extent or strength of one's belief in one's own ability to complete tasks and to reach goals.

self-electverb

To self-select; to choose for oneself, rather than having another choose for one.

self-electiveadj

Having the right to elect oneself.

self-elevationnoun

elevation of oneself in one's own mind

self-embeddingnoun

A form of self-harm by inserting foreign objects into tissue or muscle.

self-emittingadj

That emits its own light, rather than receiving it from a backlight.

self-employedadj

Working for oneself, rather than for an employer.

self-employmentnoun

The act or practice of working for oneself, such as being an independent contractor.

self-emptyingadj

That can empty itself, when required to do so.

self-encryptingadj

Automatically encrypting data without user intervention.

self-energisingadj

Containing means for augmentation of power within itself.

self-energizingadj

Alternative form of self-energising.

self-energynoun

the portion of the elementary particle's mass due to the interaction with its environment

self-entitledadj

Having a baseless sense of self-importance and of deserving special consideration.

self-enucleateverb

To remove one or both of one's own eyes.

self-enucleationnoun

The self-inflicted removal of one or both of one's own eyes.

self-envenomationnoun

The injection of a venom into oneself by means of a sting, etc.

self-esteemnoun

Confidence in one's own worth; self-respect.

self-esteemingnoun

That has high self-esteem

self-esterificationnoun

The production of one or more esters as a result of a compound reacting with itself.

self-etchadj

Pertaining to adhesive systems for bonding fillings to teeth that combine the etching and priming phases into a single step.

self-evacuateverb

To evacuate a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.

self-evacuationnoun

The evacuation of a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.

self-evaluateverb

To evaluate oneself.

self-evaluationnoun

An evaluation of oneself.

self-evidencenoun

The quality of being self-evident.

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 211. 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.