English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 340 of 1086
A type of Han Chinese clothing commonly worn from the pre-Shang dynasty periods to the Han dynasty.
The realm of the dead, the common grave of mankind, Hell. In older English translations of the Bible, notably the Authorized Version or King James Bible, this word sheol is translated inconsistently and variously as grave (31 times), pit (3 times) or hell (31 times: e.g., De. 32:22; 2Sa. 22:6; Job 11:8; Ps. 9:17).
A series of Shepard tones constructed to give the illusion of a continuously rising (or falling) series of notes.
A superposition of sine waves, separated by an octave, whose relative amplitude may be varied to give the illusion of a rising or falling note.
An archipelago between the larger islands of Epi and Efate in the province of Shefa, Vanuatu.
In the ancient Middle East, a man or mythic figure who was both a shepherd and a king.
A suburban area in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2380).
An edible weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, family Brassicaceae, native to Europe but now found world-wide.
A city, the headquarters of the City of Greater Shepparton, in northern Victoria, Australia.
A town in Spelthorne borough, Surrey, England, historically in the county of Middlesex (OS grid ref TQ0867).
Of or relating to William Sherard (1659–1728), English botanist, who established a professorship at the University of Oxford, the Sherardian Professor of Botany.
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 340. 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.