English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 296 of 1086
A sweet-smelling, non-flammable, highly fluorinated methyl isopropyl ether used for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia.
Prepared mutton tallow; the internal fat of the abdomen of the sheep, purified by melting and straining and used to make ointments.
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
A volunteer who offers his or her help to a gurdwara or to the community, for religious reasons.
A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
A peninsula jutting into the Bering Sea and Bering Strait, Alaska, United States.
A legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska, observed on the last Monday in March, commemorating the signing of the Alaska Purchase treaty on March 30, 1867.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and zinc.
A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.
The British policy that the Parliament of the United Kingdom will generally not legislate for Scotland in respect of devolved matters without the consent of Scottish Parliament.
A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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 296. 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.