English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 216 of 1086
To police and monitor amongst themselves without resorting to an external organisation.
relating to plants that pollinate themselves, either with pollen from the same flower or from a neighbouring flower on the same plant.
Pollination of a flower by its own pollen, in a flower that has both stamens and a pistil.
The bust of an artist by the artist him/herself; a portrait of the painter who painted it.
In full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised.
The purposeful act of presenting oneself to others in a favorable way, often viewed by others negatively as forceful, exaggerated, or self-indulgent.
The publishing of books and other media by the authors or creators of those works, rather than by established, third-party publishers.
The action of the verb to self-qualify; The process of qualifying through a first party
To refrain from physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.
The experience of one's own life, personality, etc.; recognition of oneself as a full-bodied individual.
The practice or habit of recriminating against oneself, of blaming or censuring oneself.
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 216. 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.