English Words: S

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self-medicatornoun

A person who administers self-medication.

self-metathesisnoun

Any metathesis reaction in which both double bonds are part of the same molecule.

self-mindedadj

Concerned or preoccupied with one's own selfish or self-centered needs, interests, or wants; egocentric.

self-mockerynoun

Teasing language or humor directed against oneself.

self-moderatingadj

Moderating without outside help.

self-monitorverb

To monitor itself or oneself.

self-motionnoun

Motion given by inherent powers, without external impulse.

self-motivatedadj

Motivated to achieve something due to one's own interest.

self-movingadj

Moving by or of itself.

self-murdernoun

Suicide.

self-murderernoun

One who commits self-murder; a suicide.

self-mutilationnoun

self-harm

self-narrativenoun

An introspective recounting of a person's development.

self-neglectfulnessnoun

The state of being self-neglectful.

self-noisenoun

The input sound level that creates the same output voltage as the receiving microphone in the absence of any sound, and which represents the lowest point of the microphone's dynamic range.

self-normalizeverb

to normalize itself; to bring itself to normalized condition

self-obsessedadj

Deeply interested in oneself to the exclusion of others; vain and narcissistic; egotistical.

self-obsessionnoun

preoccupation with self; egocentrism; selfishness

self-offencenoun

One's own offence.

self-officiatedadj

officiated by players, on the "honor system", rather than by an outside observer such as a referee.

self-officiationnoun

The officiation of a sport by players rather than observers or referees.

self-oilingadj

Automatically lubricating itself with oil while in operation.

self-openingadj

that opens, or is designed to open automatically, or opens of its own accord.

self-operatingadj

automatic

self-opinionnoun

One's own opinion.

self-opinionatedadj

Obstinately adhering to one's own opinion.

self-opinionedadj

Valuing one's own opinion highly.

self-ordainedadj

Having established authority by oneself.

self-ordinationnoun

The act or state of being self-ordained.

self-organizationnoun

A process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source.

self-organizingadj

That takes part in self-organization

self-originatedadj

that has originated from itself

self-ownnoun

A situation in which someone unintentionally embarrasses or undermines themself.

self-pacedadj

Of an action or task, designed to be completed at the learner's own rate of progress and schedule.

self-pardonnoun

A pardon granted to oneself.

self-parkingnoun

A sensor-based system that allows a vehicle to park automatically.

self-parodynoun

Parody of one's own work.

self-partialitynoun

That partiality by which people overrate their own worth when compared with others.

self-partneredadj

single (not involved in a romantic relationship)

self-perceptionnoun

Synonym of self-image.

self-perfectverb

To perfect itself; to make itself perfect.

self-perpetuatingadj

Causing itself to continue to exist.

self-perpetuationnoun

An act or state of something causing itself to continue to exist.

self-persuasionnoun

The act of convincing oneself to do, say, or believe something.

self-pitynoun

A feeling of pity for oneself.

self-pityingadj

Pitying oneself; marked by self-pity.

self-pityinglyadv

in a self-pitying manner

self-plagiarismnoun

Reuse of words, ideas, or artistic expression from material one had previously published or submitted, especially without acknowledgment of their earlier publication or submission.

self-playnoun

A technique for improving the performance of reinforcement learning agents by having them play against themselves.

self-pleachedadj

Pleached or interwoven by natural growth; intertwined; intertwisted.

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 215. 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.