English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 248 of 1086
Any of several glazed ceramic wares resembling porcelain but having little or no translucency.
an eigenvalue problem that would be a positone eigenvalue problem except that the nonlinear function is not positive when its argument is zero.
Issued and sold for a higher price than its face value, with the excess monies transferred to a third party, typically a charity.
Of or relating to a system of government in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet, with the latter two being responsible for the legislature of the state.
In a technical sense, described by its simple modules. Formally: Having trivial Jacobson radical.
More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that is shared by two patients in contradistinction to a ward containing many patients.
An occupation that requires advanced knowledge and skills but is not widely regarded as a true profession; an occupation in which professionalization is not complete.
A function f of rank k, where k is greater than or equal to three, such that for some index i between one and k (inclusive), f(x₁, x₂, ... xₖ) = xᵢ whenever |{x₁, x₂, ... xₖ}| < k.
The class of marginalized workers who lack regular employment, such as working peasants, pedlars, small handicrafts makers, and the underemployed.
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 248. 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.