English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 33 of 1086
A small pocket, inside the oral cavity of an insect, which contains the opening of the salivary duct
Alternative form of Seljukian, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
Alternative form of Seljukid, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
An autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disease characterized by early physical impairment and mental retardation.
Of or relating to a native Indian custom or prescription, as opposed to those introduced by the British in the colonial period.
Any of various Australian acacias, especially Acacia longifolia of southeastern Australia and Tasmania.
The religious practice of facing death voluntarily at the end of one's life, with fasting and meditation.
An opening into or entry to a fortification, usually arched, to enable a sally; a postern.
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 33. 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.