English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 267 of 1086
A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).
Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatic movements.
The Iberian Peninsula, especially in reference to the local Jews before their forced expulsion from 1492 onwards.
Of or relating to Jews of Iberia and their traditions, customs, and rituals. Their traditional vernacular is Ladino.
A member of a clade of cephalopods including the cuttlefish and related species, typically held to include bottletail squid, bobtail squid and pygmy squid.
A hydrated magnesium silicate, clay mineral used for carving into decorative articles and smoking pipes.
Having a separately magnetically recorded soundtrack running concurrently with the film footage.
Having a separately optically recorded soundtrack running concurrently with the film footage.
A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.
A form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest, or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.
A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.
A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
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 267. 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.