English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 28 of 1086
Of, from or relating to the city of Salamanca or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
Of, relating to, or resembling a salamander, the genus Salamandra, or the family Salamandridae.
Characteristic of or similar to the mythical salamander; especially, living or thriving in fire.
An attack against a system that consists of many minor actions (such as stealing small amounts of funds from multiple bank accounts) and is thus relatively difficult to detect.
The disreputable practice of producing several academic papers based on a single study, so as to acquire more publication credits.
The piecemeal removal or scaling back of something (especially political opposition); a gradual attack on an opposing position, group, etc.
The largest island in the Saronic Gulf, near Athens, Greece, where a famous battle in the Persian Wars took place.
A tributary of the Wabash River in Indiana, United States; in full, the Salamonie River.
Paid a salary, as opposed to being an hourly worker or a volunteer. Generally indicating a professional or manager.
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
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 28. 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.