English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 282 of 1086
A zodiacal constellation of the northern summer said to depict a man holding a serpent; the serpent is the constellation Serpens.
Having numerous linked coils, in a spiral that is larger as it grows further from the center.
a metamorphic rock composed of serpentine minerals formed by the hydration of ultramafic rocks
To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander.
A tree of species Rauwolfia serpentina or its extracts, an important ingredient in Indian traditional medicine.
A monoclinic-prismatic sky blue mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.
A mythical animal resembling a serpent-necked leopard, known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian depictions.
Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
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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 282. 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.