English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 222 of 1086
To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value, for something of very low, but immediate value.
To abandon one's spiritual values or moral principles for wealth or other benefits.
To belittle oneself in judgment; to underestimate oneself and one's abilities (and thus avoid being acknowledged to the deserved extent).
To sell (something, most often a home) despite current habitation or reliance from others and without telling the current users of the property until it is too late for them to react.
To engage in the process of short selling (selling a stock one does not own on the premise of the stock's price going down).
The sector of the finance industry that sells products such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to investors.
To sell something of little worth, pretending that it is something else of greater value.
To sell one's property (not necessarily heirlooms) in an attempt to avoid or escape financial difficulties.
To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.
The large-scale selling of goods or financial assets (e.g., real estate, equipment, stocks, bonds, subsidiaries).
A saddle-shaped depression in the sphenoid bone of the skull in humans and other hominids.
A former village in Beckermet parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough, now the site of a nuclear reprocessing plant, formerly known as Windscale (OS grid ref NY0203).
A former quartiere (quarter) of the city of Naples, Italy, which occupied territory approximating to that of the present-day quartiere of Pendino.
An excess of demand over supply, leading to abnormally high prices; a market condition favoring the seller.
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 222. 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.