English Words: S
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Any of the elementary particles (the proton, neutron, and lambda baryon) that make up other hadrons in the Sakata model, a precursor to the quark model.
A kimarite, counter to a tottari, in which the attacker frees the arm being barred and forces his opponent to fall forward.
In Ghana and other African countries, a form of Internet fraud involving ethnic or religious rituals supposed to aid the fraudster.
A republic and federal subject of eastern Russia. Official name: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Capital and largest city: Yakutsk.
An isometric-gyroidal mineral containing boron, calcium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
Any of the three necessary conditions that a baryon-generating interaction must satisfy to produce matter and antimatter at different rates: (i) baryon number violation; (ii) C-symmetry and CP-symmetry violation; (iii) interactions out of thermal equilibrium.
A monoclinic lead gray mineral containing antimony, bismuth, iron, lead, and sulfur.
A water wheel, traditionally drawn by a draft animal, but now with a motor. It is about 2-5 meters in diameter.
A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
The foreign policy of Japan between the 1630s and 1866, during which entry to and exit from Japan were severely restricted.
A Native American tribe related to the Wampanoags, from the area of Little Compton, Rhode Island.
The region consisting of the towns of Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island.
In Japanese animation (anime), a sequence of noticeably higher quality, used to highlight a particularly important scene.
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 26. 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.