English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 292 of 1086
The command signal or value which is fed into a controller to establish the target or desired position or state of the controlled device or process.
A language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
A division of the country peopled with settlers, typically as opposed to ‘wild’ or Aboriginal territory.
A contractual agreement between parties to actual or potential litigation by which each party agrees to a resolution of the underlying dispute.
a container in which sediment or other denser materials in water settle on the bottom
Settlement, especially in an area that has no official incorporation or legal claim made on it.
Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
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 292. 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.