English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 336 of 1086
Any of several larger bird species in the subfamily Tadorninae of the duck family Anatidae.
A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing calcium, carbon, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.
Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.
A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
The length of time a product (especially food and drugs) will last without deteriorating or without being sold.
The degradation of food product quality due to supply chain disruptions. It occurs when delays cause food, especially perishables, to have a shortened shelf life, resulting in products being overripe, less fresh, or closer to their expiration date by the time they reach the store.
A bibliographic record that lists works in the order in which they are physically stored on the shelves.
The mark that shows the location or call number of a book or manuscript within a library; (loosely) synonym of call number.
Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles.
A company that engages in no substantive business activities, but instead exists as a vehicle for legal or financial transactions, typically to shield another party from liability or other issues.
A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess which of three small cups (or shells) a pea-sized object is concealed under, after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery.
A small bay and former port and oil refinery in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ7481)
The sac in which the shell of a mollusc is secreted during development; (now especially) the fold of mantle in which a cephalopod secretes its pen or gladius.
Sand consisting mainly of fragments of shells, and often containing a small proportion of organic matter.
A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle; it is not a current diagnosis in medicine, but it corresponds largely with the current diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
A lightweight tracksuit consisting of a zip-front jacket and matching elasticated trousers, each having an outer nylon shell, often bearing panels and flashes of different colours, and inner cotton lining; popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s both as sportswear and as general leisurewear.
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 336. 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.