English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 342 of 1086

Sherlynname

A female given name originating as a coinage.

shermnoun

The drug phencyclidine (PCP).

sherm-headnoun

A person addicted to or mentally affected by smoking sherms (cigarettes dipped in phencyclidine).

Shermanname

An English surname originating as an occupation for a sheep-shearer.

Sherman Countyname

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

Sherman necktienoun

A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway.

Sherman statementnoun

An official refusal to serve in public office or similar; a Shermanesque statement.

Sherman's necktienoun

Alternative form of Sherman necktie.

Shermanesqueadj

Having the intent of refusing a nomination to public office, or of refusing to serve in such office if elected.

Shermername

A surname from German.

Shermuhoongname

A gewog of Mongar District, Bhutan.

sheronoun

A female hero.

Sherodname

A surname.

sheroicadj

Heroic in a female or feminist context.

Sherpanoun

A member of a particular Himalayan ethnic group living in Nepal and Tibet, known especially as mountaineers.

Sherpur Districtname

One of the four districts in the Mymensingh Division of Bangladesh.

Sherridonname

A community in northern Manitoba, Canada.

sherriedadj

Prepared with sherry.

sherriffnoun

Obsolete form of sheriff.

sherrifyverb

To oxidize.

Sherrillname

An English surname.

Sherrilynnname

A female given name.

Sherrinnoun

A football used in Australian rules.

Sherringtonname

A village and civil parish (without a council) in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9639).

sherrisnoun

Obsolete form of sherry.

Sherrodname

A surname from German.

sherrynoun

A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

sherrylikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of sherry.

sherryvalliesnoun

Thick loose riding-trousers, fastened on the outside of each leg.

Shertzername

A surname from German.

sherutnoun

Synonym of shared taxi.

sherwaninoun

A knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan.

Sherwenname

A surname.

Sherwinname

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Sherwoodname

An English habitational surname from Old English derived from Sherwood Forest.

Sherwood Forestname

A country park in Nottinghamshire, England.

Sherwood Parkname

A large hamlet in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, with over 70,000 people; a suburb of Edmonton.

Sherwoodianadj

Of or relating to Sherwood Forest.

sherwooditenoun

A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.

Sherzhongname

A gewog of Sarpang District, Bhutan.

sheselfpron

herself

shetaninoun

An evil spirit from East African mythology, often the subject of artwork.

shetarnoun

Alternative form of starr.

shethnoun

The bar on a plough which projects downward beneath the beam to connect to the sole.

Shetlandname

Ellipsis of the Shetland Islands: an archipelago and council area of Scotland.

Shetland Islandsname

An archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.

Shetlanderadj

From, or related to, the Shetland Islands.

Shetlandianadj

Of or relating to the Shetland Islands.

Shetlandicadj

Of or related to the Shetland Islands, its people, or their culture.

Shetlandishadj

Synonym of Shetlandic.

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 342. 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.