English Words: S
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June 27 in Germany (Siebenschläfertag), a day whose weather is supposed to determine the average weather of the next seven weeks.
A person who has qualified for "Craftsman" level of skill in the United States Air Force, with more training than "Journeyman" (five-level), but less than a "Superintendent" (nine-level)
A plastic-handled (officially yellow) pocket screwdriver (with clip) and a 2.5 inch shank, ending in a 1/8 inch slotted head.
Of an electronic device or display: consisting of three horizontal and four vertical lines, in an arrangement similar to the shape of the number 8, that may be individually shown or hidden, usually for the display of numeric digits; or consisting of a set of these arrangements.
Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) but less than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
Smooth hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens), native to the eastern US, from Vermont and Florida to Louisiana and Oklahoma.
A member of a branch of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims who believe that Isma'il ibn Jafar was the seventh and last imam (hereditary leader of the Muslim community).
A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase protein essential to the development of R7 cells in the embryonic eye.
The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.
The ordinal form of the number seventy-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 78 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number seventy-five, describing a person or thing in position number 75 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number seventy-one, describing a person or thing in position number 71 of a sequence.
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 294. 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.