English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 256 of 1086
A measure of the dispersion of those values that fall below the mean or target value of a data set
Variation that only considers certain parts of a function or a stochastic process, typically focusing on only the positive or only the negative changes rather than all changes.
Of a workplace or other relationship: taking place largely online but occasionally face to face.
A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.
Of or relating to a mixture of water gas and producer gas made by passing a mixture of air and steam through heated coke.
Relating to oil exploration in new areas that are close to established drilling sites.
The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.
A pastry with a cream and almond paste filling, traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday in Sweden, Finland and Estonia.
A city in Iran, the seat of Semnan County's Central District and the capital of Semnan Province.
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 256. 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.