English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 274 of 1086

Serbophobicadj

showing Serbophobia.

SERCAnoun

A calcium ATPase of type P-ATPase

serconadj

Having a serious intellectual approach to science fiction; literary; scholarly; studious.

Sercquiaisname

A language spoken on Sark, one of the Channel Islands.

serdabnoun

A sealed chamber in an Ancient Egyptian tomb that held the ka statue of a deceased person, having a small slit or hole to allow the soul of the deceased to move about freely.

serdarnoun

The holder of a particular military rank in the Ottoman Empire.

SerDesnoun

A pair of functional blocks used in high-speed communications to compensate for limited input/output, converting data between serial data and parallel interfaces in each direction.

Serdiukname

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian surname Сердюк (Serdjuk).

serdyuknoun

a Cossack soldier who serves as a mercenary for the hetman under the Zaporizhian Army.

sereadj

Without moisture; dry.

Sereanadj

Alternative form of Serian.

Serebrennikovname

A transliteration of the Russian surname Сере́бренников (Serébrennikov).

Serebriankaname

A village in Siversk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1753.

Seredaname

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Середа (Sereda).

Seredyna-Budaname

A city in Shostka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

Serei Saophoanname

A city, the provincial capital of Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia.

sereinnoun

Alternative form of serene (“light rainfall from a cloudless sky after sunset”).

serekhnoun

In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a rectangular enclosure consisting of a depiction of a palace façade and a top-down view of a royal courtyard containing the Horus name of a pharaoh, usually topped by a Horus falcon.

serelyadv

separately; differently; severally; distinctly.

Serembanname

The capital city of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.

serenanoun

Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).

Serena Slamnoun

A type of grand slam in tennis, where a player is reigning champion of all the major tournaments at the same time, but not all the tournaments have occurred in the same tennis season/calendar year.

serenadenoun

A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.

serenadernoun

One who serenades.

serenadingnoun

The act of one who serenades.

serenatanoun

A type of baroque cantata performed outdoors, in the evening, with mixed vocal and instrumental forces

serenatenoun

Obsolete form of serenade.

Serendibname

An ancient name of Ceylon or Sri Lanka.

serendibitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, calcium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.

serendipitistnoun

A person who benefits from serendipity.

serendipitousadj

by serendipity; by unexpected good fortune

serendipitouslyadv

By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident.

serendipitousnessnoun

The quality of being serendipitous.

serendipitynoun

The phenomenon of making an unplanned, fortunate discovery through a combination of unexpected circumstances and insightful recognition.

sereneadj

Calm, peaceful, unruffled.

serenelyadv

In a serene manner.

serenenessnoun

The property of being serene.

serenessnoun

The quality of being sere.

Serengetiname

A geographic region and ecosystem in Tanzania and southern Kenya, known for hosting the largest and longest overland semiannual migration of herd animals in the world.

serenifyverb

To make serene.

serenitudenoun

serenity

serenitynoun

The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

serenizeverb

To make bright; to glorify.

Seresname

Synonym of Chinese or Northern Chinese, chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China.

serfnoun

A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

serfagenoun

serfdom

serfdomnoun

The state of being a serf.

serfhoodnoun

The role or status of a serf.

serfishadj

of a serf, relating to serfdom

serfishlyadv

In a serfish manner.

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 274. 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.