English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 29 of 1086

salarylessadj

Without a salary.

salarymannoun

An employee, a worker; now especially a Japanese white-collar worker who works long hours yet has an insignificant position within the corporate hierarchy.

Salasname

A surname from Spanish.

salatnoun

The obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day and the second of the five pillars of Islam.

salateennoun

alternative plural of sultan

Salatiganame

A city in Central Java, Indonesia.

salatimnoun

Cold dishes served as a course in Israeli cuisine.

salatrimnoun

A reduced-calorie fat substitute prepared by interesterification of short-chain triglycerides like triacetin or butyrin with hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Salavatname

A city in Bashkortostan, Russia.

Salaveyname

A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Салаве́й (Salavjéj).

Salayname

A surname from Hungarian.

Salazarname

A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

Salazarismnoun

the politics of António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), prime minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, specially the authoritarian ones.

Salazaristadj

Of or relating to António de Oliveira Salazar or Salazarism.

salazo-prefix

Used to form names of phenylazosalicylic acid derivatives.

salazopyrinnoun

Synonym of sulfasalazine.

salazosulfadimidinenoun

A sulfonamide antiinfective drug.

salazosulfamidenoun

A sulfonamide antiinfective drug.

salbandnoun

The border of an igneous mass, usually characterized by a finer grain or glassy texture which is produced by the chilling of the molten rock by the cold country rock.

salbutamolnoun

A synthetic bronchodilator, with the chemical formula C₁₃H₂₁NO₃, used to treat bronchospasm associated especially with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

salcatoninnoun

A calcitonin hormone present in salmon.

Salceaname

A town in Suceava County, Romania.

Salcedaname

A surname from Spanish.

Salcedoname

A surname.

Salcetename

A subdivision of South Goa district, Goa, India.

salchownoun

A figure skating jump with a takeoff from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot after one or more rotations in the air.

Salcianame

The name of several locations in Romania:

Salcia Tudorname

A village and commune of Brăila County, Romania.

Salcoatitánname

A town in Sonsonate department, El Salvador.

Salcombe Regisname

A small village in Sidmouth parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY1488).

Saldananame

A surname from Spanish.

Saldarriaganame

A surname.

Saldiernaname

A surname from Spanish.

Saldivarname

A surname.

salenoun

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

sale-goernoun

One who looks for bargains at a sale or sales.

sale-proofadj

Nearly impossible to sell to others.

saleabilitynoun

The quality or state of being saleable.

saleableadj

Suitable for sale; marketable; worth enough to try to sell; that can be sold (i.e., for which it is possible to find a willing and able buyer).

saleablenessnoun

The quality or state of being saleable.

saleablyadv

In a saleable manner.

salebrositynoun

roughness; ruggedness

salebrousadj

rough; rugged

saleeitenoun

A secondary uranium mineral with the chemical formula Mg(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10(H₂O).

salegoernoun

Alternative form of sale-goer.

Salehname

A prophet of Islam who prophesied to the people of Thamud.

Salehiname

A surname from Persian.

Salekname

A surname from Czech.

Salekhardname

A town, the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalia), Russia, located on the Arctic Circle and the Ob Region.

salelessadj

Without any sales.

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 29. 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.