English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 31 of 1086
Characteristic of the language or techniques used to sell goods and services; especially, resembling a hard sell; pushy.
University of Salford, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate
A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP0751).
The code of laws of the Salian Franks, particularly the one excluding women from inheritance.
A glucoside derivative of salicylic acid; the active principle of willow bark, once used medicinally.
A drug with analgesic and antipyretic properties, its medicinal uses being similar to those of aspirin.
A white crystalline organic acid, 2-hydroxybenzoic acid, C₆>H₄(OH)(COOH), used in the production of aspirin and other industrial chemicals.
A toxic condition induced by excessive intake of salicylates, marked by ringing in the ears, nausea, and vomiting.
Any amphibian of the clade Salientia; frogs and toads, those of order Anura and extinct relatives of other orders.
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 31. 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.