English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 342 of 1086
A person addicted to or mentally affected by smoking sherms (cigarettes dipped in phencyclidine).
A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway.
An official refusal to serve in public office or similar; a Shermanesque statement.
Having the intent of refusing a nomination to public office, or of refusing to serve in such office if elected.
A member of a particular Himalayan ethnic group living in Nepal and Tibet, known especially as mountaineers.
A village and civil parish (without a council) in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9639).
A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
A knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan.
A large hamlet in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, with over 70,000 people; a suburb of Edmonton.
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.
An archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.
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.