English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 293 of 1086
A form of colonialism in which colonizers seek to displace indigenous populations from their land in order to establish permanent settlements of their own.
An ideology extolling the virtue of bettering oneself by becoming a settler in an undeveloped new country.
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.
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.
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.
An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.
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.
A traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.
A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
Said to be beaten, knocked, etc. out of a person who is severely violently assaulted.
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).
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.
An unspecified amount of money ranging from 1,000,000 to 9,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
The cardinal number occurring after six hundred ninety-nine and before seven hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 700.
The seals that secure the book or scroll that John of Patmos saw in an apocalyptic vision.
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.
A complete range; a whole lot; used with of and a noun or occasionally an adjective.
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.