English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 32 of 1086
A city, a municipality and seaport in the state of Oaxaca, on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
A member of an indigenous population native to the region of the Salinas Valley, California.
Political liberalization under Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.
Reminiscent of the writing style of J. D. Salinger, an American writer most famous for writing The Catcher in the Rye
Of or pertaining to J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), American writer on themes of alienation and outsiderness.
A sexual fetish in which the active partner enjoys making a great mess of someone whose appearance was previously neat and tidy.
Ground beef, mixed with egg, milk, breadcrumbs and seasonings and made into patties and cooked.
A treatment for inebriety and digestive disorders, involving the slow sipping of water before meals and bedtime, and a diet based on bread and Salisbury steak.
A marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, split between British Columbia, Canada and Washington, United States. Surrounded by Washington State to the southeast, south, and southwest, the British Columbia mainland to the northeast, and Vancouver Island to the northwest; opening to the west onto the Pacific Ocean, and leading north into the Inside Passage.
A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches.
A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations by means of a suction.
A medical test in which a sample of saliva is analyzed, often in order to measure a person's hormone levels; such a test administered to an athlete in order to conclusively determine gender.
A nuclear medicine test showing the flow of saliva from the mouth to the stomach, commonly used to detect aspiration.
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 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.