English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 275 of 1086
A fictional open species of extraterrestrial, ovoviviparous, anthropomorphic creatures with slick, muscular bodies adorned with fur, digitigrade legs, and a distinctive elongated pointy shark-like muzzle; a popular fursona species.
A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
A trigonal-trapezohedral white mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
A type of sewing machine designed to produce an overlock stitch and to cut the fabric as it stitches.
A person who commits multiple (more than two) murders, especially similar ones with no obvious motive over a period of time with a "cooling-off" period between each murder.
A style of prescription eyeglasses with large lenses, a thin metal frame, and a double nose bridge, similar to aviator sunglasses.
The practice of having a succession of (especially short) monogamous relationships with different people.
The tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.
Music, especially from the 20th century, in which themes are based on a definite order of notes of an equal-tempered scale.
To write a television program, novel, or other form of entertainment as a sequence of shorter works with a common story.
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 275. 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.