English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 258 of 1086
A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
The office of, or landed estate granted to, a senator, especially in France under the consulate and First French Empire.
The governing body of a Scottish university, consisting of the principal and professors.
A rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the seventh melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
A form of Japanese green tea made by infusing the processed whole tea leaves in hot water.
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
To send an inexperienced person to do something they are not qualified for.
To expel, eject, or dismiss someone; to send away, chase off, or force out; (from a job or employment position) to fire.
To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
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 258. 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.