English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 304 of 1086

Seyednoun

Alternative form of Sayyid.

Seyed Mohyeddinname

A male given name from Iranian Persian.

Seyername

A surname from German.

Seyfertname

A surname from German.

Seyfert galaxynoun

A kind of galaxy having quasar-like nuclei.

Seyliname

A township in Poskam, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Seyllername

A surname from German.

Seymname

A river which flows for 748 kilometres (465 mi) through the Belgorod and Kursk Oblasts of Russia and Sumy and Chernihiv Oblasts of Ukraine.

Seymourname

A surname from Anglo-Norman.

seymouriamorphnoun

Any of the order †Seymouriamorpha of extinct limbed vertebrates.

seymouriamorphsnoun

plural of seymouriamorph

Seyoumname

A surname from Amharic.

Seyssesname

A town and commune of Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France.

sezverb

Eye dialect spelling of says.

sezeecontraction

says he

señornoun

A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man.

señoranoun

A Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married, divorced or widowed woman

señoritanoun

A young, unmarried woman in or from a Hispanophone community.

sfnoun

Alternative form of SF (science fiction)

SF&Fnoun

A genre of fiction, combining the subgenres of science fiction (or speculative fiction) and fantasy.

SF/F/Hnoun

The parent genre encompassing the genres of science fiction, fantasy fiction and horror fiction; speculative fiction; imaginative fiction; non-mimetic fiction.

SF10noun

A document containing all academic records and grades of a student from elementary school to senior high school.

SFAnoun

Initialism of sweet Fanny Adams.

SFAICTadv

Abbreviation of so far as I can tell.

Sfakianame

A mountainous area in the southwest of Crete.

Sfaxname

A city in Sfax Governorate, Tunisia.

SFCname

Initialism of Scottish Funding Council.

sfericnoun

A short pulse of electromagnetic radiation produced by lightning

sfericsnoun

plural of sferic

sfermionnoun

A sparticle of the class of spin-0 superpartners of ordinary fermions appearing in supersymmetric extensions to the Standard Model.

sfermionicadj

Relating to sfermions.

sfihanoun

An Arab pizza-like dish, traditionally an open-faced meat pie made with ground mutton.

SFLname

Initialism of Scottish Football League.

SFMname

Abbreviation of Source Filmmaker, a software tool for video capture and editing, often used to create animations.

SFnaladj

Abbreviation of science fictional.

SFOname

Initialism of Serious Fraud Office.

sfogliatellanoun

A Neapolitan pastry made from puff pastry with a sweet filling.

sforzandonoun

A mark that indicates that a note is to be played with a strong initial attack.

SFRname

Initialism of Socialist Federal Republic.

SFSRnoun

Initialism of Soviet federated socialist republic or socialist federated Soviet republic.

SFTnoun

Initialism of sparse Fourier transform.

sfumatonoun

A painting technique, prominent during the Italian Renaissance, involving the application of subtle layers of translucent paint, blurring the transition between colors, tones and often objects and creating the illusion of depth.

SFXnoun

Abbreviation of sound effects.

SFYLphrase

Initialism of sorry for your loss, commonly said in response to someone being scammed or losing money from a risky investment. It originated from the phrase "sorry for your loss", usually addressed to people mourning loved ones and is mostly used in finance in a sarcastic way.

Sfântu Gheorghename

A city in Covasna County, Romania.

SGname

Initialism of Stanley Gibbons, stamp dealer and catalogue publisher.

SG&Ename

Initialism of Stadia Games and Entertainment.

sgabellonoun

A kind of stool typical of the Italian Renaissance, typically made of walnut and having a variety of carvings and turned elements.

SGCAPSnoun

A Windows keyboard feature that strictly produces an uppercase version of a letter on certain keys whereas Shift produces an unrelated symbol.

SGDnoun

Initialism of stochastic gradient descent.

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 304. 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.