English Words: S

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settler colonialismnoun

A form of colonialism in which colonizers seek to displace indigenous populations from their land in order to establish permanent settlements of their own.

Settler of Catannoun

A player of the multiplayer board game The Settlers of Catan.

settlerdomnoun

The realm or sphere of settlers.

settlerhoodnoun

The state or condition of being a settler.

settlerismnoun

An ideology extolling the virtue of bettering oneself by becoming a settler in an undeveloped new country.

settleristadj

Characteristic of or pertaining to settlerism.

settlersnoun

plural of settler

settlingverb

present participle and gerund of settle

settlornoun

A person who settles property on express trust for the benefit of beneficiaries.

Settyname

A surname from Telugu.

setulanoun

A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta

setulenoun

A setula.

setuliformadj

Resembling a setula.

setuloseadj

Having small bristles or setae.

setumahnoun

A closed parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart by a space in the middle of the line of text, with the previous portion ending before the space, and the next portion starting after it.

setupnoun

Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

setwallnoun

The plant valerian.

setwiseadj

In terms of a set or sets.

Setúbalname

A district in central Portugal.

SEUnoun

Initialism of slightly enriched uranium.

seudahnoun

A festive meal.

seudah shlishitnoun

The third meal eaten on the Sabbath.

seudat mitzvahnoun

A meal held in honor of the fulfillment of certain mitzvah.

seudomísticoadj

pseudomystical

Seumasname

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, equivalent to English James.

Seung-Huiname

A male given name from Korean.

Seussianadj

Of or relating to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904–1991), American writer and cartoonist best known for his imaginative children's books, often written in rhyme.

Seussicaladj

Synonym of Seussian.

Seussificationnoun

The process of making or becoming like the works of Theodor Seuss, "Dr. Seuss" (1904–1991), American writer and cartoonist best known for his imaginative children's books, often written in rhyme.

sevnoun

An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.

sevanoun

Selfless service that is performed without any expectation of reward for performing it.

Sevanname

large freshwater mountain lake in Armenia

Sevastopolname

A port city in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia. It is the base of the Black Sea Fleet.

Sevcikname

A surname.

sevdalinkanoun

A traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.

seveareadj

Obsolete spelling of severe.

sevennum

A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.

seven bellsnoun

Said to be beaten, knocked, etc. out of a person who is severely violently assaulted.

seven deadly sinsnoun

The cardinal sins enumerated by medieval philosophers and theologians: pride (or vanity, vainglory), envy, gluttony, greed (or avarice), lust, sloth (or acedia), and wrath (or anger).

seven dirty wordsnoun

A parody of seven deadly sins, seven English-language curse words, often referred to as being the most obscene. The words, in the order George Carlin originally listed them, are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

seven figuresnoun

An unspecified amount of money ranging from 1,000,000 to 9,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.

seven hundrednum

The cardinal number occurring after six hundred ninety-nine and before seven hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 700.

Seven Islandsname

Synonym of Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada.

Seven Kingsname

A suburban area in the borough of Redbridge, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4587).

seven o'clocknoun

The start of the eighth hour of the day; 7:00 a.m. (07:00).

seven outverb

in the game of craps, to roll a seven after having established the "point".

seven sealsnoun

The seals that secure the book or scroll that John of Patmos saw in an apocalyptic vision.

seven seasnoun

All the oceans of the world, in a common modern interpretation, the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic Ocean, but historical interpretations differ widely.

seven shadesnoun

A complete range; a whole lot; used with of and a noun or occasionally an adjective.

Seven Sistersname

A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.

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 293. 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.