English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 266 of 1086
A Korean card game with betting and bluffing, played with hwatu cards, similar to baccarat and the Japanese game oicho-kabu
The capital city of South Korea, also the historical capital of Korea from 1394 until the country was divided in 1945.
A sport of Southeast Asia, in which a small rattan ball is kicked back and forth over a net.
One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure.
A polynomial over a given field that has distinct roots in the algebraic closure of said field (the number of roots being equal to the degree of the polynomial).
A publicly funded school with constitutional status in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan and statutory status in Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon, and operated by a school board, headed by trustees, and separate from the public school system.
To divide the members of a group into those that are superior and those that are inferior.
A sum of money paid regularly to support the dependents of a member of the military while he or she is serving away from home.
The process of separating a computer program into distinct features that overlap functionally as little as possible.
The requirement that two or more people must be involved in order to complete a high-risk task.
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 266. 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.