English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 298 of 1086
An agreement about having sex with a particular frequency, or in a particular way regardless of circumstances.
Surgical procedure that alters a person's sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender, particularly for transgender people, or to conform to societal standards for intersex people to present in a dyadic fashion, the latter often done without consent.
A segment in a film or television program in which characters engage in simulated or real sexual activity.
A swing, used in sexual activity, designed to restrain one person while one or more others are able to move freely.
Any physical object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure.
A person who supplies sex work (short-term sexual services) in exchange for compensation.
Of a trait or phenotype: affected by whether it appears in a male or a female body.
Having a generally negative view of sexuality; seeking to repress and control the libido; (in particular) seeking to ban sex work, pornography, and kinky or unusual kinds of sex.
Viewing sexual activity as fundamentally beneficial and healthy; (in particular) supportive of personal autonomy and rights in relation to sex (including consensual kinky sex, queer sex, or sex work).
The act of sending sexually explicit text messages and/or photographs between cell phones.
In the Christian calendar the Sunday two weeks before Lent, eight before Easter Sunday.
In the Catholic liturgical year, the eighth Sunday (i.e. the sixtieth—minus one—day) before Easter (and the second before Lent).
A paper size, (1.87"-2.5" x 2.5"-3.125"), one sixty-fourth of a standard uncut flat sheet.
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 298. 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.