English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 318 of 1086
To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
An expat living in Shanghai, especially (historical) in its former international extraterritorial zones.
A place or land of complete bliss, delight, and peace, especially one seen as an escape from ordinary life; a paradise.
A deity in Hinduism, the personification of the planet Saturn, associated with justice, karma, and discipline.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A town and civil parish with a town council on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5881).
One's own feet used for walking; to "travel by shanks' mare" or "ride [on] shanks' mare" is to walk to your destination.
A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on the border with Bhutan.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
The longest river in the British Isles, which flows through Ireland into the Atlantic Ocean.
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 318. 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.