English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 283 of 1086
A common flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to grasslands in temperate Eurasia and North Africa.
Of or pertaining to the branch of the Uto-Aztecan languages that contains Serrano, Kitanemuk, and Gabrielino-Fernandeño
Ellipsis of serrano pepper, a chili pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum which originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo and is used in cooking.
Any fish of the family Serranidae, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.
Any of several muscles of the vertebral or costal region that produce a serrated border.
the aliphatic hydroxyketone 7-hydroxy-4,6-dimethylnonan-3-one which is the female sex pheromone of the cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne)
A specialist in the undeveloped interior of Brazil and other parts of Portuguese America
A kind of sustentacular cell which serves as a "nurse" cell of the testes and which is part of a seminiferous tubule.
An antidepressant drug C₁₇H₁₇NCl₂ administered in the form of its hydrochloride and acting to enhance serotonin activity.
Any member of the former order Sertularida, hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae.
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 283. 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.