English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 225 of 1086
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Any equipment used for visual signalling by means of flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, which are used to represent letters of the alphabet, or words.
Any of a class of proteins that assist growing axons to find an appropriate target and to form synapses
An organism as seen in a specific time during its ontogeny or life cycle, as the object of identification or basis for systematics.
The use of symbols to communicate information, such as with musical or mathematical notation, road signs, or emojis.
Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression.
The science of signs, particularly of verbal signs, in the operation of thinking and reasoning; the science of language as expressed by signs.
An instrument for signalling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.
The practice of attracting male butterflies or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It used to be done by collectors wanting to procure specimens.
Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
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 225. 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.