English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 343 of 1086

Shetleyname

A surname.

Shettername

A surname from German.

Shetterlyname

A surname.

Shettyname

A surname from Kannada.

Sheuname

A surname from Mandarin.

sheughnoun

A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.

Sheung Shuiname

An area and town in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Sheung Wanname

An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

sheva brachotnoun

the seven blessings recited after grace after meals at a wedding feast, and at festivities during the week after or before the wedding.

Shevardnadzename

A transliteration of the Georgian surname შევარდნაძე (ševardnaʒe).

shevarimnoun

A series of three medium-length blasts of the shofar.

Shevaroy Hillsname

A mountain range, the site of a major hill station, near the city of Salem in Tamil Nadu state, southern India.

Shevchenkoname

A surname from Ukrainian

Shevchenkovename

A rural settlement, the administrative centre of Shevchenkove settlement hromada, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Shevchukname

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Шевчу́к (Ševčúk).

Shevelname

A surname.

shevelledadj

very tidy; neat; ordered.

Shevlinname

A surname from Irish.

Shevuosname

Alternative form of Shavuot.

shewverb

Archaic spelling of show.

shew-breadnoun

Obsolete form of showbread.

shewagenoun

Synonym of scavage.

shewanellosisnoun

An infectious disease produced by bacteria of the genus Shewanella.

Shewardname

A surname.

shewbreadnoun

Obsolete spelling of showbread.

Shewchukname

A surname from Ukrainian.

shewernoun

Obsolete spelling of shower.

shewestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of shew

shewethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shew

sheweyadj

Obsolete form of showy.

Shewfeltnoun

A back handspring off the vaulting horse or vaulting table with a layout and two-and-a-half twists.

shewnverb

past participle of shew

shewsnoun

plural of shew

shewyadj

Obsolete spelling of showy.

sheykhnoun

Dated form of sheik.

sheytânnoun

Alternative spelling of shaitan.

shhintj

Demanding silence.

shinoun

Abbreviation of shibire.

Shi'aname

Shi'a Islam.

Shi'a Islamname

The second largest denomination of Islam, followed by 200–300 million people, who's adherent's believe that Muhammad appointed Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor prior to his death.

Shi'a-centricadj

Centred on or emphasizing Shi'a Islam.

Shi'iadj

Synonym of Shiite.

Shi'ismnoun

Shi'a Islam

Shi'iticadj

Of, or pertaining to Shi'ism.

Shi'itizationnoun

Alternative spelling of Shiitization.

shi(ts)noun

Abbreviation of shibire(ts).

Shi-jia-zhuangname

Alternative form of Shijiazhuang.

Shiadomnoun

The Shiite world.

shiainoun

A judo competition.

Shiaphilianoun

Love or admiration for Shiism or of Shiite civilization.

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 343. 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.