English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 24 of 132

SDGnoun

Initialism of single-display groupware.

SDInoun

Initialism of single-document interface.

SDLPname

Initialism of Social Democratic and Labour Party.

SDPname

Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

SDRnoun

Initialism of special drawing right.

senoun

A type of ancient Chinese plucked zither.

seanoun

A large body of salt water.

The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.

Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.

The area bordering the sea; a coastline; a sealine.

Transported on the sea or ocean, especially by floating on the sea.

A placename:

The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.

A sailor or mariner.

Living one's life at sea.

Synonym of seabed.

Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.

A placename:

The seashore, the coast.

A surname from Old English.

Travelling out to sea.

Any of various grass-like marine plants that grow underwater in salt water.

Any of several white, often dark-backed birds of the family Laridae having long, pointed wings and short legs.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club

A rapacious gull-like bird of the genus Stercorarius.

sealnoun

A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.

A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Sealand) whose capital is HM Fort Roughs, a former British sea fort.

Any material used to seal a surface so as to prevent passage of a fluid.

simple past and past participle of seal

A tool used to seal something.

To transport by sea

Used for closing securely.

plural of seal

Resembling or characteristic of a seal (the animal).

seamnoun

A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.

Synonym of sailor, particularly on a maritime vessel.

Skill in, and knowledge of, the work of navigating, maintaining, and operating a vessel at sea.

Having or furnished with seams.

plural of seaman

A person who sews seams.

Having no seams.

In a seamless manner.

plural of seam

A woman who sews clothes professionally.

A male given name from Irish.

seanverb

Dated form of seine.

Any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.

A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.

An attempt to find something.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 24. 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.