English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 321 of 1086
A very rare disorder consisting of paroxysmal hypothermia (due to hypothalamic dysfunction of thermoregulation), hyperhydrosis, and agenesis of the corpus callosum.
A time delay in the round trip travel time for radar signals passing near a massive object, caused by time dilation.
A town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
A dog of a distinctive breed with deep wrinkles, especially when young, a blue-black tongue, and a rough short coat.
A pair of loose trousers worn (typically with a kameez and dupatta) by women in South Asia.
A style of landscape gardening or architecture in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided in favour of an organic appearance.
The use of a betting shop's coupons and a betting exchange to create an arbitrage position.
A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
For members of a group, equal portions of or equal access to tangible or intangible goods, entitlements, or obligations—i.e., each person's share like each of the other shares. Often used in a context of reciprocity, or pooling resources.
To care for the livestock that belong to someone else, in exchange for a percentage of the profits or offspring; to work as a shareherder.
Website content that exists only to be shared, aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs.
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 321. 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.