English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 285 of 1086
A postsecondary school that prepares its students for military service as an officer.
A formal contract of employment, particularly where the employee has high status, like a company director.
A place built alongside a limited-access road where one can stop to buy fuel, refreshments, and so on.
A dog which serves people by helping them with activities of daily living, with search and rescue, or with other (non-draft and nonfarming) tasks.
Any of the consumer products (food, cosmetics, etc.) handed out or sold on board a passenger aircraft.
A measure of how well a service is delivered, as a percentage of service interactions that meet a specified criterion of success and efficiency.
Equipment, structures or machinery used for the supply of a service (“utility provided on a continuous basis, such as water supply”).
The delivery of information to a person or entity providing notice that they are being sued with sufficient detail for them to respond to the suit.
A handgun of the revolver type, issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties.
A relatively narrow road which runs alongside a major transportation route, such as a canal, a railway line, or a controlled-access highway.
Either of two rare Old World deciduous trees, Sorbus domestica or Sorbus torminalis.
serving the dishes of a meal all together in one course instead of in several courses
Several species of trees in the genus Sorbus, especially Sorbus domestica and Sorbus torminalis.
One who services a loan or other obligation, by collecting receivables and carrying out related actions such as enforcement
That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
The transformation or encapsulation of existing processes or systems into one or more discrete services.
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 285. 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.