English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 30 of 132
Any equipment used for visual signalling by means of flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, which are used to represent letters of the alphabet, or words.
Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
Somewhat arid, receiving little rainfall but more than an arid area would. Typically defined as 25 to 50 cm or 10 to 20 inches of rainfall annually.
A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.
A playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.
A person who competes in the semifinals, the winner of which goes on to compete in the finals.
A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.
Any member of a Native American people formed in the eighteenth century, now residing primarily in Florida and Oklahoma.
Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by a Semitic language such as Arabic, Aramaic or Hebrew.
A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
A demonstration of affection and well-wishing to someone leaving a place or group to begin a new undertaking; a farewell.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 30. 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.