English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 29 of 132

sekinoun

In the game of Go, a state of impasse where neither player can benefit from playing in a location

Selname

A diminutive of the female given name Selena.

Selaname

The capital of Edom, near Mount Hor; also known as Joktheel and Petra.

Alternative letter-case form of selah.

A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Shah Alam.

A town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE6132).

Infrequently, rarely.

selenoun

Happiness, fortune.

Privileged, specially selected.

Capable of being selected.

That have been selected or chosen.

The process or act of selecting.

Of or relating to the process of selection.

In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.

selectivitynoun

The quality of being selective, or extent to which something is selective.

Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns.

Someone or something which selects or chooses.

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

The goddess of the Moon.

A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.

Relating to the Greek-Macedonian dynasty which ruled (312–63 BCE) an empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great.

selfpron

Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

State of having a distinct identity, or being an individual distinct from others; individuality.

A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.

Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.

selfishnessnoun

The quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

Having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.

In a selfless manner; done in a way that disregards concerns for the self and places other first.

selflessnessnoun

The quality or state of being selfless.

A surname.

A surname from German.

A surname from Arabic.

A female given name from Latin.

A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Selkirkshire (OS grid ref NT4728).

sellverb

To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

Able or likely to be sold.

A former village in Beckermet parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough, now the site of a nuclear reprocessing plant, formerly known as Windscale (OS grid ref NY0203).

A surname.

Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

plural of seller

Action of the verb to sell.

Alternative spelling of sell-off.

An action in which principles are compromised for personal gain.

third-person singular simple present indicative of sell

Rare; wonderful; admirable

A female given name.

Ellipsis of seltzer water.

Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.

A civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST787486).

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 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.