English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 328 of 1086

shaving horsenoun

A device that allows a woodworker to sit astride it while it clamps onto a piece of wood which is being worked.

shavingsnoun

plural of shaving; those particles or pieces left after or created by shaving.

Shavonname

A female given name from Irish.

Shavonnename

Alternative form of Siobhan.

shavua tovphrase

Used Saturday night through Sunday (and sometimes later) to express good wishes for the coming week following the Jewish sabbath.

Shavuotname

A Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered.

shawnoun

A thicket; a small wood or grove.

Shaw Mayer's astrapianoun

Synonym of ribbon-tailed astrapia.

Shaw's agavenoun

Agave shawii.

Shawangunkname

A town in Ulster County, New York, United States, named after Shawangunk Kill and Shawangunk Ridge.

Shawano Countyname

One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Shawano.

shawarmanoun

A Middle Eastern sandwich-like wrap of shaved lamb, goat, chicken, turkey, beef, or a mixture of these.

Shawbridgename

A district, a former municipality of Prévost, Rivière-du-Nord county, Quebec, Canada; across the river from Old Prévost in Prévost

Shawcrossname

A surname from Old English.

Shawforthname

A village and ward in the Township of Whitworth in Rossendale borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8818).

Shawhanname

A surname from Irish.

Shawiname

Synonym of Chayahuita (“Amazonian language of Peru”).

Shawiniganname

A town in the Mauricie of Quebec, Canada

Shawinigatename

A 1999 Canadian scandal involving Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's profiting from real estate deals in his home riding of Shawinigan, Quebec.

Shawismnoun

A belief, quotation, etc. attributed to the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).

Shawiyaname

A Berber language spoken in Algeria.

shawlnoun

A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

shawledadj

Dressed in a shawl.

shawlettenoun

A small shawl.

shawlingnoun

An act of wrapping in a shawl.

shawllessadj

Without a shawl.

shawllikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a shawl.

shawlwiseadv

Arranged in the manner of a shawl.

shawmnoun

A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.

shawmernoun

Synonym of shawmist.

shawmistnoun

Someone who plays a shawm.

Shawnname

Alternative form of Shaun, a unisex given name.

Shawnaname

A female given name, variant of Shauna.

Shawneenoun

A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio.

Shawnee Countyname

One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Topeka.

Shawneetownname

A small city, the county seat of Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. The town was established in 1937 after the Ohio River flood of 1937 inundated what is now Old Shawneetown, Illinois.

Shawnnaname

A female given name, variant of Shauna.

Shawolnoun

A fan of the South Korean boy band SHINee.

shawomannoun

A female shaman.

Shawshankverb

To escape, especially by tunneling out or without warning.

Shawswickname

A township and unincorporated community therein, in Lawrence County, Indiana, United States.

shawtynoun

Alternative form of shorty (“young woman, girlfriend”).

Shawwalname

The tenth month of the Islamic calendar.

shaynoun

A chaise.

Shayaname

Synonym of Xayar: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Shayangname

A county of Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Shayarname

Synonym of Xayar.

shaylanoun

A traditional Islamic headcovering worn by some Muslim women to observe sartorial hijab; typically wrapped and pinned, and sometimes worn as a partial niqab (veil for the face).

Shaynaname

A female given name from Yiddish.

Shaysitenoun

A follower of Daniel Shays during his 18th-century armed rebellion in New England.

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 328. 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.