English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 32 of 132

sentverb

simple past and past participle of send

sentainoun

A Japanese military unit; a squadron, task force, group or wing.

sentencenoun

The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

sentencedverb

simple past and past participle of sentence

sentencesnoun

plural of sentence

sentencingadj

Relating to a judicial sentence.

sentiencenoun

The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.

sentientadj

Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

sentimentnoun

A general thought, feeling, or sense.

sentimentaladj

Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion; appealing to the emotions (especially tender emotions) rather than reason, morality, aesthetic taste, etc.

sentimentalitynoun

An act or state of being sentimental.

sentimentsnoun

plural of sentiment

sentinelnoun

A sentry, watch, or guard.

Sentosaname

An island resort in Singapore.

sentrynoun

A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.

SEOnoun

Initialism of search engine optimization.

Seongname

A surname from Korean.

Seoulname

The capital city of South Korea, also the historical capital of Korea from 1394 until the country was divided in 1945.

SEPname

Alternative letter-case form of Sep (“September”).

separableadj

Able to be separated.

separateverb

To divide (a thing) into separate parts.

separatedadj

Detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.

separatelyadv

In a separate manner; not together; apart.

separatenessnoun

The property of being separate.

separatingverb

present participle and gerund of separate

separationnoun

The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.

separatismnoun

A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).

separatistnoun

Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatic movements.

separatornoun

An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.

seperateverb

Obsolete form of separate.

Sephardicadj

Of or relating to the Sephardi Jews.

sephirothnoun

plural of sephirah

sepianoun

A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.

sepoynoun

A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.

seppukunoun

A form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest, or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.

sepsisnoun

A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.

septnoun

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.

septaladj

Of or pertaining to a septum.

Septembername

The ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, following August and preceding October, containing the southward equinox.

septicadj

Of or pertaining to sepsis.

septicemianoun

A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterized by chills and fever.

Septimusname

A male given name from Latin.

Septuagintname

The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.

septumnoun

A wall separating two cavities; a partition.

sepulchernoun

Alternative form of sepulchre.

sepulchraladj

Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.

sepulchrenoun

A burial chamber.

Sepulvedaname

A surname from Spanish.

SEQname

Initialism of South East Queensland.

sequelnoun

The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.

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 32. 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.