English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 339 of 1086
A traditional Ethiopian or Eritrean handwoven cotton cloth that holds cultural, social, and religious significance.
A circle with a line at a tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylized loop of rope, representing eternal protection.
singular of shenanigans: a deceitful confidence trick; also, an act of mischief; a prank, a trick; an act of mischievous play, especially by children.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
A woman in her mid- to late twenties and not yet married, particularly an unmarried successful businesswoman.
A man who has for an extended amount of time been unable to find a romantic, interpersonal or physically intimate relationship.
In ancient China, a scholar who has passed the entry-level examination to study at a college.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Kaidan Alenko from the video game series Mass Effect.
A syndrome in China in which the individual suffers somatic symptoms with anxiety, traditionally believed to be caused by a loss of semen.
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 339. 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.