English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 259 of 1086
Of or relating to Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), American illustrator and writer of children's books.
A demonstration of affection and well-wishing to someone leaving a place or group to begin a new undertaking; a farewell.
A conjecture concerning the relationship between the locations of roots and critical points of a polynomial function of a complex variable. It states that for a polynomial f(z)=(z-r_1)⋯(z-r_n), qquad (n>2) with all roots r₁, ..., rₙ inside the closed unit disk |z| ≤ 1, each of the n roots is at a distance no more than 1 from at least one critical point.
A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman stoic philosopher, dramatist, and statesman.
A former village in Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York State, United States; a settlement of freed slaves and other African Americans, also containing non-WASP European immigrants, demolished to make way for Central Park.
Of or relating to Seneca the Younger, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BC–AD 65), Roman philosopher and statesman.
Any leguminous plant of the genus Senegalia, closely related to acacias, found across the Southern Hemisphere.
An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
The Senegambia Confederation, a loose confederation between the West African countries of Senegal and the Gambia.
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 259. 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.