English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 313 of 1086

shakhovitenoun

A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing antimony, hydrogen, mercury, and oxygen.

Shakhtarskename

A city in Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Shakhtyname

A city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the southeastern spur of the Donetsk mountain ridge.

shakilyadv

In a shaky manner.

shakinessnoun

The property of being shaky.

shakingverb

present participle and gerund of shake

shakinglyadv

In a shaking manner; shakily

shakonoun

A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.

Shakopeename

A city, the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota, United States.

Shakraname

Alternative form of Sakra.

shakshukanoun

A Maghrebi dish of eggs simmered in a mixture of chopped tomatoes, chilies, cumin, peppers, and onions.

Shaksperianadj

Archaic spelling of Shakespearean.

shaktverb

simple past of shake

Shaktiname

The Hindu concept or personification of the divine feminine aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine Mother'. Shakti represents the active, dynamic principles of feminine power.

Shakti Nagarname

A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Shaktismnoun

A branch of Hinduism that focuses on the worship of Shakti as a supreme goddess.

shakunoun

The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun or ¹/₁₀ of a jō, now standardized as equal to ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter.

shakubukuverb

to proselytize; to convert (someone) to one's religion

shakudonoun

A billon of gold and copper that can be treated to form a dark indigo patina resembling lacquer.

shakuhachinoun

A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale and is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.

Shakuniname

The personification of Dvapara Yuga, the brother of Gandhari in the Mahabharata.

Shakurname

A surname from Arabic.

shakyadj

Shaking or trembling.

Shakyaname

An ancient tribe of Iron Age India to which the Buddha belonged.

Shakyamuniname

Alternative form of Sakyamuni.

shakycamnoun

A style of filming using a handheld camera, giving an on-screen effect of shakiness.

Shalakoname

A Zuni ceremony, performed at the winter solstice.

shalbecontraction

shall be

shalenoun

A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.

shale gasnoun

Natural gas extracted from shale.

shale oilnoun

A synthetic crude oil obtained by the pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution of oil shale.

shale pitnoun

A quarry or mine where shale rock is mined.

shaleionairenoun

A person who has become rich by allowing natural gas to be extracted from a shale deposit situated below land they own.

shalelikeadj

Resembling shale.

shalernoun

A producer of shale oil.

Shalevname

A male given name from Hebrew.

shaleyadj

Pertaining to or resembling shale.

Shalfordname

A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7229).

shaliahnoun

A legal agent; one who performs an act of legal significance for another.

shalinessnoun

The condition of being shaly.

shalionairenoun

Alternative spelling of shaleionaire.

shalknoun

A servant.

shallverb

Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.

shall we sayadv

Used to make a statement less offensive, by way of euphemism.

shall'scontraction

Contraction of shall + us.

shall'vecontraction

shall have (with have as auxiliary verb)

Shallalname

A surname from Arabic.

shalln'tcontraction

Archaic form of shan't.

shallnacontraction

shall not

shallnaecontraction

shall not

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 313. 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.